On Wed, Jul 16 2003, Dave Jones wrote:
> I've decided to oggify my CD collection, and every now and
> again, the mouse pointer goes bezerk is if I had been
> shaking it around and randomly clicking on things.
> In the logs are lots of..
>
> psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
>
> It only happens whilst cdparanoia is reading from the CD.
> The IDE CD drive is using DMA, and interrupts are unmasked.
> according to the logs, its happened 32 times since I last
> booted.. /proc/interrupts shows that the i8042 is using
> a different interrupt to the IDE devices..
>
> Mouse is a logitech wheely PS/2 mouse, using ImPS/2 protocol
> in X config reading from /dev/psaux.
>
> This is using 2.6test1, I'don't recall ever seeing this
> happen in 2.4, but it did occur for a while earlier in 2.5,
> and I forgot about it until now.
>
> Any ideas?
Yes. You can try and make the situation a little better by unmasking
interrupts with -u1. Or you can try and use a ripper that actually uses
SG_IO, that way you can use dma (and zero copy) for the rips. That will
be lots more smooth.
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