On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:05:45PM -0500, jhell wrote: > ... > >Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: psm0: failed to reset the aux device. > >Feb 9 14:30:27 localhost kernel: psm0: the aux device has gone! > >(reinitialize). > ... > >So far, the least disruptive form of evasive action I've found is a > >reboot, which is quite a bit more disruptive than I'd prefer. > > > >Help? > ... > I'm assuming that you've checked to make sure that moused is running after > psm has disappeared ?.
I have verifies that it is not, in fact, running: it exits when its device disappears. > As a somewhat workaround until the cause of this problem can be determined > you could setup a cronjob as root to check for moused and if not found > restart it. Except that it won't start without a (detectable) device. > Add moused_port="/dev/ums?" to /etc/rc.conf and replace ? with > corresponding device number. No USB rodents on my laptop. :-} > Add the following to /etc/crontab > pgrep moused ||service moused restart > > Of course this does not detect which moused is running and for what device > so some adjustment might be needed there if you have more then one moused > running at a time usually. The touchpad/trackpoint show up as a single /dev/psm0, as far as I can tell: d254(7.3-P)[1] ls -lT /dev/psm* crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 56 Feb 11 08:03:06 2010 /dev/psm0 d254(7.3-P)[2] grep -C 5 psm /var/run/dmesg.boot pcm0: clone manager: deadline=750ms flags=0x8000001e pcm0: sndbuf_setmap 7db40000, 4000; 0xc527d000 -> 7db40000 pcm0: sndbuf_setmap 7db44000, 4000; 0xc5281000 -> 7db44000 pci0: <simple comms, generic modem> at device 31.6 (no driver attached) acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0 psmcpnp0: <PS/2 mouse port> irq 12 on acpi0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 atkbd: the current kbd controller command byte 0065 atkbd: keyboard ID 0x41ab (2) kbd0 at atkbd0 kbd0: atkbd0, AT 101/102 (2), config:0x0, flags:0x3d0000 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] psm0: current command byte:0065 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [ITHREAD] psm0: model GlidePoint, device ID 0-00, 2 buttons psm0: config:00000000, flags:00000008, packet size:3 psm0: syncmask:c0, syncbits:00 speaker0: <PC speaker> port 0x61,0x63,0x65,0x67 on acpi0 fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f2-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: ic_type 90 part_id 80 fdc0: [FILTER] sio0: irq maps: 0x201 0x211 0x201 0x201 d254(7.3-P)[3] > Good Luck. > ... Thanks. :-} Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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