jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE

[Dominic Fandrey]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> Well it doesn't rule it out.  X may be introducing latencies that are 
>>> causing your mouse to lose sync or something.
>>
>> It's not the mouse that hangs.
>> It's the only thing that works,
>> everything else hangs when I combine moused/X. This issue doesn't 
>> exist on all my systems, though. It existed on my old Thinkpad 
>> (Pentium-m 1.3 GHz), it exists on my new notebook (Core2 Duo with 2.4 
>> GHz), but it doesn't exist on my P4 with 1.6 GHz.
>>
>> Key entries, animations, they all just pile up somewhere and happen 
>> all at once when I start using the mouse. To watch a movie I have to 
>> keep the mouse moving all the time.
>>
>> It's not a general X and mouse problem, because without moused in 
>> between everything works fine. I think at some point in time a bug was 
>> either introduced in moused, or in my opinion more likely, in the 
>> sysmouse protocol implementation in X.
> 
> Could also be an interrupt issue.  Either way it's still a different 
> issue to the ones in this thread.

I always thought it's about the same thing and people were just imprecise in 
their perception. The P4 used to be affected by this, too. This changed 
somewhere around RC1, I think. Since all of my machines had encountered the 
problem since I switched them to RELENG_7, I thought my problem was very 
common and it's the one everyone is talking about.