Bug#607242: syslog shows messages from psmouse.c
I'm getting this too. Here's the tail of my syslog. The parity messages make me kinda suspect failing hardware.
Dec 23 08:08:42 gadabout kernel: [ 889.790156] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Dec 23 08:08:46 gadabout kernel: [ 893.077036] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:17:00 gadabout kernel: [ 1386.920047] ACPI Error: Illegal I/O port address/length above 64K: 0x0000000000400020/4 (20090903/hwvalid-154)
Dec 23 08:17:00 gadabout kernel: [ 1386.920055] ACPI Exception: AE_LIMIT, Returned by Handler for [SystemIO] (20090903/evregion-424)
Dec 23 08:17:00 gadabout kernel: [ 1386.920061] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L09] (Node ffff88007fb2a540), AE_LIMIT
Dec 23 08:17:00 gadabout kernel: [ 1386.920087] ACPI Exception: AE_LIMIT, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20090903/evgpe-568)
Dec 23 08:17:01 gadabout /USR/SBIN/CRON[2811]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Dec 23 08:23:05 gadabout kernel: [ 1752.594091] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:23:23 gadabout kernel: [ 1770.043507] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:23:24 gadabout kernel: [ 1771.675493] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Dec 23 08:23:26 gadabout kernel: [ 1773.153695] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:24:58 gadabout kernel: [ 1865.426208] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:28:56 gadabout kernel: [ 2103.834864] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:29:19 gadabout kernel: [ 2125.964244] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:41:14 gadabout kernel: [ 2840.974187] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:45:40 gadabout kernel: [ 3107.126259] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:45:46 gadabout kernel: [ 3113.574329] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:45:58 gadabout kernel: [ 3125.319904] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:50:04 gadabout kernel: [ 3371.504141] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Dec 23 08:50:06 gadabout kernel: [ 3372.979298] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:50:09 gadabout kernel: [ 3376.725902] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:50:13 gadabout kernel: [ 3380.301314] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Dec 23 08:50:14 gadabout kernel: [ 3381.271533] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 08:56:18 gadabout kernel: [ 3745.092206] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Dec 23 08:56:19 gadabout kernel: [ 3746.510556] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 09:04:56 gadabout kernel: [ 4263.062278] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Dec 23 09:04:58 gadabout kernel: [ 4264.912181] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 09:16:22 gadabout kernel: [ 4949.744285] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Dec 23 09:16:23 gadabout kernel: [ 4950.616985] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
Dec 23 09:17:01 gadabout /USR/SBIN/CRON[4828]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
$ sudo lshw
gadabout
description: Desktop Computer
product: EL445AA-ABA SR1750NX NA650
vendor: Compaq Presario 061
version: 0nx1411RE101AMBEM00
[...]
$ uname -a
Linux gadabout 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 10 15:35:08 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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