Comment 5 for bug 113733

This problem exists since warthy. It's still present in jaunty and is (at least for me) recently more noticeable than ever.

me@desktop:~$ dmesg | grep mouse
[ 2.227107] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input2
[ 2.618929] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 18.436798] psmouse serio1: ID: 10 00 64<6>udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth2
[ 231.187239] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
[ 4320.177120] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
[ 4320.587760] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
[ 4321.094420] psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request
[ 4321.720057] psmouse serio1: ID: 10 00 64<6>elantech.c: unexpected magic knock result 0x00, 0x02, 0x64.
[ 4339.515293] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
[ 5003.334341] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
[ 5003.838420] psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request
[ 5004.423040] psmouse serio1: ID: 10 00 64<6>elantech.c: unexpected magic knock result 0x00, 0x02, 0x64.
[ 5539.331752] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
[ 6334.454171] psmouse serio1: ID: 10 00 64<6>elantech.c: unexpected magic knock result 0x00, 0x02, 0x64.
[ 7211.420887] psmouse serio1: ID: 10 00 64<6>elantech.c: unexpected magic knock result 0x00, 0x02, 0x64.
[ 7429.986561] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
[ 7681.567206] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
[ 7766.639345] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
[ 8492.625253] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.