Possible mouse/ATA problems in -STABLE

[Doug White]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Mike Harding wrote:

>
> My mouse has been losing sync several times a day and then eventually
> disappearing, requiring, AFAIK, a reboot to make the system usable.
> It's possible that this is hardware on my end, but I did change mice
> and I still have the same problem.  This may be related to some recent
> mfc ATA changes at this only seems to happen during periods of high
> disk activity.  Also, the mouse seems to generate almost 300
> interrupts per second at times.

It sounds like your ATA device and ps/2 ports have ended up with the same
interrupt.  You might see if you can convince the ATA controller to move
elsewhere by locking out irq 12.

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