2.2.18-24 intermittent PS/2 mouse problems

Alan,

I am still seeing intermittent mouse problems with a PS2 mouse on a 4 x PPro box with 2.2.18-24. When the system is first powered up, the mouse detection is working great. If I reboot the machine without powering it down, about 1 in 3 times I do this, the next kernel load fails to detect the mouse. I have not looked at the driver to see what state the Mouse port is in, but could.

Is there something I could do to help you debug this problem (i.e. is there somewhere in the kernel code I should put in some sanity checking to see if the mouse is being left in a good state.

Powering down the machine makes the problem go away. Does not happen on 2.4.0-12, BTW, just 2.2.18-24.

Jeff

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Alan,

One more thing. I was able to reproduce it once during an initial powerup sequence by putzing with the mouse buttons while the auto-detection was going on (generating interrupts?). I am wondering if the problem in in the way interrupts are being handled for the mouse. If I leave the mouse alone it seems to get autodetected properly.

Jeff
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