Comment 75 for bug 119194

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Bal (bal) wrote : Re: [hardy] ps2 mouse erratic - parity errors - lost synchronization errors

 I recently bought 2000 pcs mice from manufacturer in China for sales in Nepal. Have been using Linux for more than 10 years, never though PS/2 mouse wouldn't work on latest kernels. My display box says "Tested on Debian/Ubuntu". Shocked to say that it does not work in Debian Squeeze/Sid. Kernels tested, 2.6.32, 2.6.33 etc. It works OK on FC4 with custom built kernel 2.6.20 and WinXP flowlessly. Other cheap ps2 mice work OK in this system. Tried everything acpi, demux, etc. Issue is exactly as stated in this bug. Has following hardware in my system.

bal@head:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 0x3e50 [Radeon X600]
05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600] (Secondary)

 bal@head:~$ dmesg | grep mouse
[ 0.835005] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 62.324146] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
[ 133.292295] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
[ 133.797623] psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request
[ 141.192457] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
[ 665.190026] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
[ 1467.194410] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout

 It does all kind of wierd things when plugged in. Creating new "untitled folders" clustered on the upper right corner and open files and many wierd thngs.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks