bin/79376: moused causes random mouse events with a PS/2 mouse on FreeBSD-4.11

[Mark Linimon]

The following reply was made to PR bin/79376; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: linimon at lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/79376: moused causes random mouse events with a PS/2 mouse on FreeBSD-4.11
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:31:15 -0500

 ----- Forwarded message from "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau at iki.fi> -----
 
 Posted-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:22:29 +0300 (EEST)
 
 	As far as I can remember (meaning a couple months maybe ;-)
 	I have not seen this to an extent that I had really paid any
 	special attention to it.
 	Just in case these little details might have any effect on
 	how the computer sees the mouse events I have PSM flags set
 	in device.hints to
 
 		hint.psm.0.flags="0x6004"
 
 	and the secondly my mouse is connected through a KVM switch
 	which might actually filter or smooth some unexpected or too
 	sharp movements which might be caused by PS/2 protocol being
 	dropped out of sync or by inductive errors on the mouse cord.
 
 	Obviously I have no idea of the internals of the KVM switch.
 	My guess is though that since it is just a small and cheap
 	box it most likely does not provide a lot of "intelligent"
 	features.
 	So, I have not been actually bothered by the problem for some
 	time, but I do not think it should as such be taken as proving
 	the case one way or the other. Most I can say is that I can
 	not confirm the problem while using 6.2-STABLE/RELENG_6.
 
 
 	Cheers,
 		// jau
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