Problem with mouse during high CPU load
Anonymous
swell.k at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 14:57:52 UTC 2011
Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> writes:
> i've reported this issue quite a while ago [1], but back then nobody was able
> to help me. i have an issue with my usb mouse. when there's a high CPU load it
> produces random mouse clicks. this doesn't happen on other OSes. i've attached
> a different usb mouse to my freebsd box and i could't observe the same
> behavior. so it seems this problem is only related to specific mice.
I'm curious, can you reproduce it without moused(8), i.e. specifying
/dev/umsN in xorg.conf rather than /dev/sysmouse.
This may be unrelated but my mx518 mouse produces random clicks when I
move it very quickly and using moused(8), no clicks when not.
>
> back then hps@ guessed that my mouse requires a certain polling rate from the
> host. during high cpu load the host couldn't keep up the polling rate and thus
> the mouse starts producing wrong output.
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