sysmouse/tty weirdness

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

hey,

i'm running into more and more weird things:  this time it's sysmouse.  
I wondered why X (working with an updated version of the free nv 
driver) didn't do the scrollwheel game.

Turns out that /dev/sysmouse is sending bullshit:  Unsynced frames, 
sometimes one byte too much, sometimes some bytes too few, short reads 
and zero reads.  No mouse click data at all (dunno if that used to 
work). hd /dev/sysmouse *should* display a constant stream when moving 
the mouse, but it aborts and the data is bogus.  It has been verified 
that it occurs at at least one different system.

Output can be debugged with 
<http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/unsorted/showmouse.c>

It *is* sysmouse, because the mouse data correctly arrives at 
syscons/console mouse.  I suspect there is some bug in the tty code, 
but even a kernel from 2005-10-11 didn't show correct behaviour.  I 
suspect it to have something to do with tty handling, but I got too few 
time to debug in-depth at the moment.

I wonder why this worked before at all?  Maybe some race condition 
which didn't show up with the slower processor before.

Clues?

cheers
  simon
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