Moused crashes with Synaptics

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 04. Aug 2009, 13:26:24 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf:
> Hi,
> 
> an Acer notebook with a Synaptics Touchpad makes some trouble
> here. My primary problem is: I restart the mouse daemon and then I
> can move the mouse only for a short distance; suddenly the mouse
> freezes.
> 
> To analyze the problem I do the following:
> 
>   # /etc/rc.d/moused restart
>   # dd if=/dev/sysmouse bs=4 | xxd -c 4
>   ...
>   0000048: 87         .
>   18+1 records in
>   18+1 records out
>   73 bytes transferred in 21.774484 secs (3 bytes/sec)
>   # 
> 
> You see: dd stops without reporting an error. Obviously the moused
> doesn't work properly any more.

In the meantime I learned that there is /dev/bpsm0 and I wrote a
litte Ruby script that reads /dev/psm0. Both devices refuse to
supply anything after a very short period of time.

What could this be?

Thanks in advance.

Bertram


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