Subject: Re: i386 30-second freeze, possibly mouse-related
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/11/2007 22:59:02
On Nov 11, 2007 8:05 PM, Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Simon Burge wrote:
> > > My i386 system, running a -current kernel from yesterday's sources
> > > (4.99.35) and userland from about a month ago just froze for about 30
> > > seconds. [...]
> > >
> > > Nov 11 11:49:14 apb-laptoy /netbsd: pms0: pms_input: unusual delay (0.050026 s),
> > >  scheduling reset
> > > Nov 11 11:49:37 apb-laptoy /netbsd: pckbport: command timeout
> > > Nov 11 11:49:37 apb-laptoy /netbsd: wpi0: fatal firmware error
> > > Nov 11 11:49:37 apb-laptoy /netbsd: pms_disable: command error
> >
> > Is this an MP system with a PS2 mouse?
>
> Yes.  Well, it's a trackpad mouse built in to a laptop, but it uses
> the pms driver like a PS/2 mouse:
>
> pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
> pms0: Synaptics touchpad version 6.2
> pms0: Palm detect, Multi-finger
>
> > I saw this same problem on the netbsd-4 branch.  MP kernels with
> > and with ACPI showed the same problem, but any UP kernels (with no
> > ACPI, with ACPI and with MPBIOS/ioapic) work ok.  I think that most
> > (all?) time I saw the problem it was when I moving the mouse.
>
> I have a MP kernel with ACPI, so it could easily be the same problem as
> you saw.

Just to confirm I have got the same, but kinda got used to it -
...
pms0 at pckbc1 (aux slot)
pms0: Synaptics touchpad version 6.2
pms0: Palm detect, Multi-finger
pckbc1: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
...
...
Nov 11 17:16:42 lisa /netbsd: pms0: pms_input: unusual delay (0.089999
s), scheduling reset
Nov 11 17:16:44 lisa /netbsd: pms0: pms_input: unusual delay (0.090000
s), scheduling reset
...

Not too bad, about ten times in the last week.

The kernel is just the standard GENERIC.MP + drm enabled, i.e. the
similar to the other posters.
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
>



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