ps2 mouse driver problem -- kernel psmintr error messages

[Antonio Huete Jimenez]

Hi Ed,

You may want to add to your psm driver line (in the kerrnel config
file) the flag 0x8, so the psm line by default is:
     device          psm0    at atkbdc? irq 12

And you should use:
    device          psm0    at atkbdc? irq 12 flags 0x8

Then you have to compile the kernel by yourself, plus this doesn't
warranty to fix your problem though :-)
I think there's another way to accomplish this, but I don't know it.

·Antonio

2009/6/24 Ed Berger <nobody at gmail.com>:
> 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).
>
> Is there a configuration file I need to edit or is it a bug with the mouse
> driver?
>
> My temporary workaround is to plug in a USB mouse and change xorg.conf to
> use /dev/ums0, instead of using the factory ps2 mouse.
>
> The machine is using an nvidia nforce4 based motherboard with AMD64x2
> processor,   SATA drives, ps2 keyboard and mouse.
>