ps2 mouse driver problem -- kernel psmintr error messages

[Francois Tigeot]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:13:06AM -0400, Ed Berger wrote:
> With either the liveDVD or installing from CDROM and building X11 from 
> pkgsrc, on a HP m8000n media PC I have problems with the mouse cursor, 
> which flies to the right side of the screen as soon as its touched, and 
> seems to just jump up and down on the far right of the screen when the 
> mouse is moved.  The PS2 mouse works fine with linux (centos, opensuse) 
> or windows (xp, vista).
> 
> It was detected as
> kernel:  psm0:  <PS2 Mouse>  irq 12 on atkbdc0
> kernel:  psm0: model IntelliMouse, device  ID 3
> 
> 
> In the log there are messages, which don't look encouraging to me.
>   kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0008 != 0000)
>   kernel: psmintr: discard a byte  (1).
>   kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0008 != 0000)
>   kernel: psmintr: discard a byte  (2).
>   kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0008 != 0000)
>   kernel: psmintr:  discard a byte (3).


You may have an interrupt problem.

I had a similar issue when I enabled the emergency interrupt stuff recently.
The log messages where exactly the same.

-- 
Francois Tigeot