From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: After updating the kernel to kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 the mouse intermittantly jumps around the screen and has button clicks. The keyboard also intermittantly repeats characters when typing. At the same time the kernel is spitting out messages: kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away. The motherboard is an A-Bit AN8 with the nForce4 chipset. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Keyboard and wheel mouse are plain ps2 hardware. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 version kerenel. 2. Start X and log in. 3. Start up a few applications and move the mouse around the desktop. Actual Results: The mouse pointer jumps randomly around the desktop, spurious false mouse clicks are recieved, and the keyboard will intermittantly repeat characters when typing. Expected Results: The mouse pointer should follow mouse movement, there should only be mouse clicks when the mouse buttons are pressed, the keyboard should not randomly repeat characters. Additional info:
2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4. Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in this release, which may have fixed your problem. Thank you.
kernel 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4smp is an improvement, I'm not seeing the synchronization errors and the intermittant key repeats are not as severe but they still occur. I've noticed that the problem is more prevelant when the system is heavily loaded. e.g. if I run folding at home in the background so the CPU is busy the intermittant key repeats occur at a higher frequency. I'm currently still running the 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp kernel as it does not exhibit any of the symptoms of the other kernels.
I have a similar kind of problem. The current kernel is 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 and I have Belkin Omni Cube 4-Port console box. Reproduce the problem: 1) Start the FC4 X-session 2) Change the console channel from Belkin Omni Cube 4-port box to the another console and change back to FC4. 3) Mouse control has freak out and mouse jumps around the screen. /var/log/messages: Nov 14 13:15:39 mediabox kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away. Nov 14 13:15:41 mediabox kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
I'm currently on 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4smp and there are no issues. Random key repeats are gone and no further synchronization errors.