On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:14, Cameron Murdoch wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure what happened to the original message, sorry for the noise! > > I am running a recent current: > > FreeBSD opal.macaroon.net 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Mar 26 16:18:16 > GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > The machine is a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. It is running XFree86-4.3.0 It has both > a trackpad and a pointing stick (?what is the real name for this, I always call them > nipples?), and it is seems to be the mouse I am having a problem. > > Every now and again, but with great regularity the screen will freeze up, so that > nothing works, not even the caps lock light. However, it isn't a crash as leaving > the machine alone for a random amount of time will normally fix it. Sometimes this > delay is a matter of seconds, other times I have left if for about 20+mins. > Interestingly enough, pinging the laptop from another computer will always unfreeze > it immediately. > > As this occurs the following is printed to the console: > > Mar 27 11:23:57 opal kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000). > Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (1). > > The above appears for each freeze, and every now and again this appears: > > Mar 27 11:23:57 opal kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000). > Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (1). > Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0040 != 0000). > Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (2). > Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000). > Mar 27 11:23:58 opal kernel: psmintr: re-enable the mouse. > > When the re-enable the mouse message happens then the pointing stick stops working > and only the trackpad functions. > > This started happening with 5-RELEASE though not when -RELEASE was first installed. > I am not sure what has caused it.
This has actually been happening to me a fair amount too since before 5.0-RELEASE and still on -CURRENT: FreeBSD laptop.internal.irrelevant.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Mar 22 12:23:42 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP i386 If anyone has any ideas feel free to let me know too -- Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
