Re: Continue: psmouse.c - synaptics touchpad driver sync problem

[Marc Waeckerlin]

I CC this mail to laflipas and t.hirsch because they have the same problem.

Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2004 16.18 schrieben Sie unter "RE: Touchpad on Kernel 
Mailinglist: Question":
> Marc Waeckerlin wrote:

> > > Here your touchpad can be rest back to relative mode.
> > How?
> What I meant is that act of plugging in your keyboard may cause
> the touchpad revert back in relative mode and we _do not_ want
> this happening. Hence the option psmouse.resetafter to try to
> re-initialize the touchpad after so many bad packets.

> > > Does passing psmouse.resetafter=3 to the kernel helps things a bit?
> >
> > Do you mean as boot-prompt parameter to GRUB/LILO?
>
> If your psmouse module is compiled it then use "psmouse.resetafter=3"
> as a boot parameter. If psmouse is a module then put
> "options psmouse resetafer=3" in your /etc/modprobe.conf

I am sorry, both options do not help at all - well, perhaps the jumping of the 
cursor when using the touchpad without external keyboard/mouse disconnected 
may be slightly better. But as soon as I plug in the external keyboard, the 
old problem occurs.

Also I have a problem not yet mentioned, but it happened again this morning: 
Sometimes - without external keyboard/mouse, only using touchpad and internal 
keyboard -, sometimes the keyboard does not work anymore. If I hit any 
arbitrary key, nothing happens anymore. The mouse still works with the 
touchpad. Since I am often mobile, I can't acces the notebook through LAN and 
sice keynoard does not work anymore, I cant hit ctrl-alt-f1 or so to switch 
to a terminal or to watch the syslog on ctrl-alt-f10. The only thing I can do 
is to reboot using the mouse only.


> You know, could you send me your dmesg so I get a feeling of your
> laptop. What make/model is that?

It's a Pentium III, SIS-Chipset noname (the only notebook I could buy without 
Microsoft tax), as you can see in the attached dmesg.

I have my notebook for 2 1/2 years now and I never had similar problem with 
the previous 2.4.x kernels. Also there are other people with the same 
problem, so I think it's no hardware defect.


> Also, if you don't use any external 
> devices do you still have touchpad troubles?

Doesn't help.


> Do they go away if you 
> boot with acpi=off boot parameter?

No, that's one of the first things I tried. SuSE sets up a "Failsafe" boot 
parameter, that disables ACPI, APM, ISE-SCSI and other things. But it still 
does not work.


> I wish I could provide you with a canned solution, there just too
> many unknowns.

There are other with the same problem, e.g. Thorsten on the kernel mailing 
list in Mai and the one on the link I posted in my first mail. Also, there's 
another similar thread in linuxquetions.org:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182363&highlight=mouse+jumps+around
Do a search on Google to find more victims (possible keywords: "mouse jumps 
linux" or the syslog messages). Here's one reporting the same in spanish:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/2004/02/msg00127.html


Is there any alternative driver I could try? How is synaptics related to a 
PS/2 mouse and can it be disabled? Can I do something in the kernel 
configuration (please describe the xconfig menu path)?

Can I assist you somehow? I am an experienced C++ programmer, but I have never 
done kernel development or debugging.

If you send me a patch, if possible diff it against 2.6.7, that's my actual 
kernel.


Thank you
Regards
Marc
Linux version 2.6.7 (root@qingwa) (gcc-Version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #2 Tue Jun 22 12:23:11 CEST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000bff0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000bff0000 - 000000000bff8000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000bff8000 - 000000000c000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffef0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
191MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 49136
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 45040 pages, LIFO batch:10
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI                                       ) @ 0x000fc740
ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT AMIINT09 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x0bff0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT AMIINT09 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x0bff0030
ACPI: DSDT (v001    SiS      630 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x5008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317 acpi=force desktop resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes)
Detected 1097.320 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
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Calibrating delay loop... 2179.07 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
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CPU:     After vendor identify, caps: 0387fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
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CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU serial number disabled.
CPU:     After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
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CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
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..... CPU clock speed is 1097.0112 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.0737 MHz.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
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PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
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PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Uncovering SIS18 that hid as a SIS503 (compatible=0)
Enabling SiS 96x SMBus.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 11)
ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 4 6 7 11 12 14 15) *0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 6 7 10 12 14 15) *0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 11) *0
ACPI: Power Resource [FN10] (on)
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ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
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sisfb: Detected LVDS transmitter and Chrontel TV encoder
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fb0: SIS 630/730 VGA frame buffer device, Version 1.6.25
sisfb: (C) 2001-2004 Thomas Winischhofer.
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audit(1087978333.470:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
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agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
[drm] Initialized sis 1.1.0 20030826 on minor 0: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630/730 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:00.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS630 ATA 100 (1st gen) controller
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
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hda: FUJITSU MHT2080AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: QSI DVD-ROM SDR-081, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
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 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.0.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
 Firmware: 4.1
 Sensor: 8
 new absolute packet format
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio2
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
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NET: Registered protocol family 1
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Resuming from device hda1
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PM: Reading pmdisk image.
PM: Resume from disk failed.
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
SCSI subsystem initialized
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
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USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: irq 11, pci mem d0b59000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.3: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2)
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.3: irq 11, pci mem d0b67000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
XFS mounting filesystem hda2
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VFS: Mounted root (xfs filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
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Adding 859436k swap on /dev/hda1.  Priority:42 extents:1
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
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scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
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 sda: sda1
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USB Mass Storage device found at 2
XFS mounting filesystem loop0
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Linux Kernel Card Services
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.0 [1584:3000]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x00b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000821
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
BIOS EDD facility v0.15 2004-May-17, 1 devices found
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0370d60(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: Lid Switch [LIDD]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
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    ACPI-0182: *** Warning: Allowing relaxed access to fields; turn on CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG for details.
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (51 C)
XFS: unknown mount option [commit].
XFS: unknown mount option [commit].
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
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agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: remote wakeup
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 3
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: USB       Model: Flash Drive       Rev: 1.11
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SCSI device sda: 253949 512-byte hdwr sectors (130 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 4
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynched.