[wplug] Laptop disk access question

[Teodorski, Chris]

Well -- not the best solution but a workable solution.  I disabled the built in mouse -- both the little eraser guy and the touchpad.  It seems to have stopped the disk thrashing and the mouse lagging and jumping seems to have gone away.  Unfortunately, this means I have to carry a mouse....


 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+teodorski=ppg.com at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-bounces+teodorski=ppg.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Chester R. Hosey
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:30 PM
To: General user list
Subject: RE: [wplug] Laptop disk access question

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 15:18 -0400, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> The plot thickens.   I turned off laptop-mode to see if that fixed the issue, it did not.  So I decided to check the logs and make sure that I wasn't experiencing a drive failure and I found syslog full of the messages below:
> 
> Aug 24 15:10:53 localhost last message repeated 2 times
> Aug 24 15:10:53 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
> Aug 24 15:11:49 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 4 bytes away.
> Aug 24 15:11:49 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> Aug 24 15:11:49 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> Aug 24 15:11:49 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
> 
> 
> So what now?
> 
> Chris

Random thoughts...

* STFW (You've probably already done this, but it's always worth
  mentioning, and always a good start with error messages)

* Edit kernel, comment out or remove offending line from psmouse.

* Disable logfile rotation, symlink relevant log to /dev/null.

* Try a kernel upgrade, or a different mouse driver. If things are still
  broken, email the maintainer of the TouchPad driver, or the linux-
  kernel mailing list.

Chet
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