>At first I was laboring under the assumption that this was an
>SMP-related problem and, while intensely irritating on my box "zippy",
>I figured it would at least only bite a small number of people and
>only in -current.
>
>Now I've switched over to a single-CPU box running RELENG_4 and this
>problem is, indeed, very much there. It's a really _bad_ problem
>given that the mouse goes absolutely nuts during these intervals
>and you *will* have bogus contents selected and pasted into your
>xterms at random intervals. Depending on what was cut and pasted,
>the results could be pretty nasty.
Have you tried the patch below which I posted to -stable and -current
mailing lists back in June?
Kazu
Index: psm.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/CVS/src/sys/isa/psm.c,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.26 psm.c
--- psm.c 2000/04/19 14:57:50 1.26
+++ psm.c 2000/06/09 01:19:59
@@ -1830,10 +1830,11 @@
unit = (int)arg;
sc = devclass_get_softc(psm_devclass, unit);
- if (sc->watchdog) {
+ if (sc->watchdog && kbdc_lock(sc->kbdc, TRUE)) {
if (verbose >= 4)
log(LOG_DEBUG, "psm%d: lost interrupt?\n", unit);
psmintr(sc);
+ kbdc_lock(sc->kbdc, FALSE);
}
sc->watchdog = TRUE;
sc->callout = timeout(psmtimeout, (void *)unit, hz);
@@ -1880,18 +1881,6 @@
if ((sc->state & PSM_OPEN) == 0)
continue;
- /*
- * Check sync bits. We check for overflow bits and the bit 3
- * for most mice. True, the code doesn't work if overflow
- * condition occurs. But we expect it rarely happens...
- */
- if ((sc->inputbytes == 0)
- && ((c & sc->mode.syncmask[0]) != sc->mode.syncmask[1])) {
- log(LOG_DEBUG, "psmintr: out of sync (%04x != %04x).\n",
- c & sc->mode.syncmask[0], sc->mode.syncmask[1]);
- continue;
- }
-
sc->ipacket[sc->inputbytes++] = c;
if (sc->inputbytes < sc->mode.packetsize)
continue;
@@ -1904,6 +1893,13 @@
c = sc->ipacket[0];
+ if ((c & sc->mode.syncmask[0]) != sc->mode.syncmask[1]) {
+ log(LOG_DEBUG, "psmintr: out of sync (%04x != %04x).\n",
+ c & sc->mode.syncmask[0], sc->mode.syncmask[1]);
+ sc->inputbytes = 0;
+ continue;
+ }
+
/*
* A kludge for Kensington device!
* The MSB of the horizontal count appears to be stored in
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