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I'm having the exact same problem as this guy here: http://www.nabble.com/psmouse.c-resync-failed-td16082494.html but with my Dell D620 with BIOS version A10 and Ubuntu 8.04. I found out as that guy, that it may be a bug in the recent kernels... I tried the ones that comes with Hardy: 2.6.24-16 17 18 and 19... all the same. Then tried downgrading to the 7.04 kernel adding the sources from that distro ( 2.6.22-14-generic) and it works perfect. I also tried compiling myself a 2.6.25.6 vanilla kernel, pretty clean, and still the same problem. I think it has something to do with ACPI managing cpufreq... but it's just a hunch. I will try later to compile the kernel without ACPI at all as it seems from that post that noacpi boot param is not working. I will quote what Andy Baumhauer said there, which is exactly my problem, to better explain the symptoms: ===========START QUOTING============================================================== "Kernel 2.6.24.3-22 and 2.6.24.3-12 lockup my Dell D830 laptop with a Synaptics touchpad. If I leave the keyboard for a brief period of time, and return, the mouse pointer will not move. A few seconds later (and the system monitor shows high CPU utilization), the mouse will stutter to life, and the /var/log/messages shows: Mar 16 14:06:03 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 Mar 16 14:06:03 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 Mar 16 14:06:04 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away. Mar 16 14:06:08 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request Mar 16 14:07:34 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away. Mar 16 14:07:38 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request After a few times going through this process, the caps lock and scroll lock will start flashing on the laptop. The system becomes unresponsive and you cannot even ping the host. The only thing that works is a hard power cycle. I have tried booting with nohz=off and noapci, to no avail. This is making Fedora totally unworkable." I have tried all types of changes to the boot string: noapic apic=force irqpoll nohz=off highres=off ... ... Nothing fixes the problem. I tried without the nvidia drivers from livna. I finally tried booting to the LiveCD and the problem disappeared. It was then I realized that the kernel version was 2.6.23.1-42 versus the 2.6.24.3-33 I was running. I reinstalled the older kernel from the install disk, and the problem has gone away. After further testing of the following kernels: kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-2.6.23.14-115.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm The problem does not exist on: kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8.x86_64.rpm Something changed between 1-49 and 8-63 which causes the system to freeze momentarily (even the Gnome System Monitor freezes), and then when the mouse is moved, the kernel spits out the error messages from psmouse.c. I now believe that the psmouse.c messages are a symptom that results after the freeze occurs. My initial testing shows if the system is not touched for 30 seconds, the freezing takes place." ===============END QUOTING============================================= I don't know if it has something to do with the touchpad, i hardly doubt it, but I can say for sure that this happens ONLY after you leave the machine idle (Not touching keyboard or mouse at all) for a few minutes and when you are running on battery power. It seems that running on AC doesn't trigger this problem, or at least is much less frequent. Also, just as a note, when I unplugged the AC power, the system freezes for 1 second and then returns to normal. P.S.: I tried using both, Powernow and cpufreq and I got the same problem. P.S.: I know that the other problem is in Fedora, but it's EXACTLY what is happening to me with Ubuntu 8.04. Thanks, Fede.- ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: Hello, I'm having the exact same problem as this guy here: http://www.nabble.com/psmouse.c-resync-failed-td16082494.html - but with my Dell D620 and Ubuntu 8.04. I found out as that guy, that it may be a bug in the recent kernels... I tried the ones that comes with Hardy: 2.6.24-16 17 18 and 19... all the same. + but with my Dell D620 with BIOS version A10 and Ubuntu 8.04. I found out as that guy, that it may be a bug in the recent kernels... I tried the ones that comes with Hardy: 2.6.24-16 17 18 and 19... all the same. Then tried downgrading to the 7.04 kernel adding the sources from that distro ( 2.6.22-14-generic) and it works perfect. I also tried compiling myself a 2.6.25.6 vanilla kernel, pretty clean, and still the same problem. I think it has something to do with ACPI managing cpufreq... but it's just a hunch. I will try later to compile the kernel without ACPI at all as it seems from that post that noacpi boot param is not working. I will quote what Andy Baumhauer said there, which is exactly my problem, to better explain the symptoms: ===========START QUOTING============================================================== "Kernel 2.6.24.3-22 and 2.6.24.3-12 lockup my Dell D830 laptop with a Synaptics touchpad. If I leave the keyboard for a brief period of time, and return, the mouse pointer will not move. A few seconds later (and the system monitor shows high CPU utilization), the mouse will stutter to life, and the /var/log/messages shows: Mar 16 14:06:03 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 Mar 16 14:06:03 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 Mar 16 14:06:04 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away. Mar 16 14:06:08 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request Mar 16 14:07:34 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away. Mar 16 14:07:38 mordac kernel: psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request After a few times going through this process, the caps lock and scroll lock will start flashing on the laptop. The system becomes unresponsive and you cannot even ping the host. The only thing that works is a hard power cycle. I have tried booting with nohz=off and noapci, to no avail. This is making Fedora totally unworkable." I have tried all types of changes to the boot string: noapic apic=force irqpoll nohz=off highres=off ... ... Nothing fixes the problem. I tried without the nvidia drivers from livna. I finally tried booting to the LiveCD and the problem disappeared. It was then I realized that the kernel version was 2.6.23.1-42 versus the 2.6.24.3-33 I was running. I reinstalled the older kernel from the install disk, and the problem has gone away. After further testing of the following kernels: kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-2.6.23.14-115.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.x86_64.rpm kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm The problem does not exist on: kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8.x86_64.rpm Something changed between 1-49 and 8-63 which causes the system to freeze momentarily (even the Gnome System Monitor freezes), and then when the mouse is moved, the kernel spits out the error messages from psmouse.c. I now believe that the psmouse.c messages are a symptom that results after the freeze occurs. My initial testing shows if the system is not touched for 30 seconds, the freezing takes place." ===============END QUOTING============================================= I don't know if it has something to do with the touchpad, i hardly doubt it, but I can say for sure that this happens ONLY after you leave the machine idle (Not touching keyboard or mouse at all) for a few minutes and when you are running on battery power. It seems that running on AC doesn't trigger this problem, or at least is much less frequent. Also, just as a note, when I unplugged the AC power, the system freezes for 1 second and then returns to normal. P.S.: I tried using both, Powernow and cpufreq and I got the same problem. P.S.: I know that the other problem is in Fedora, but it's EXACTLY what is happening to me with Ubuntu 8.04. Thanks, Fede.- -- Dell Latitude D620 System freezes after idle time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243595 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
