X pauses until mouse is moved

[Coleman Kane]

Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:07:00 -0400
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
>>
>> This problem was originally reported on this list on March 5
>> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2008-March/006077.html).
>> I am now seeing this on my RELENG_7 and -CURRENT boxes.  Basically, all
>> interaction with X is temporarily suspended until the mouse is moved.
>> This only occurs when using /dev/sysmouse (thus when moused is enabled).
>> If I disabled moused, and use /dev/psm0 directly, the problem goes away.
>>
>> My i386 RELENG_7 machine was working fine until I updated to:
>>
>> FreeBSD shumai.marcuscom.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #17: Mon Mar
>> 24 15:32:39 EDT 2008
>> marcus at shumai.marcuscom.com:/build/obj/build/src/sys/SHUMAI  i386
>>
>> Prior to that I was running FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #16: Sat Mar  8 20:07:36
>> EST 2008.
>>
>> Also prior to that I had the xorg-server update that was supposed to fix
>> jerky mouse movement.  That didn't seem to trigger this problem.  I
>> thought it might have been related to the recent moused fix in RELENG_7,
>> so I backed out the moused.c changes, but the problem persists.  I also
>> backed out the recent X mouse driver VT switch fix, but the problem
>> persists.
>>
>> At least two other users have described similar problems.  Any
>> suggestions on what may be causing this?  The only difference I spot in
>> dmesg relates to CPU clock speed (off by 1/100 of a MHz).  The working
>> version of FreeBSD had:
>>
>> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5140  @ 2.33GHz (2327.52-MHz
>> 686-class CPU)
>>
>> The current version has:
>>
>> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5140  @ 2.33GHz (2327.51-MHz
>> 686-class CPU)
>>
>> A full (current) dmesg can be found at
>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/dmesg.shumai .
>>     
>
> I am seeing about the same thing here. My system is running:
> FreeBSD slan.es.net 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #2: Mon Mar 17 21:39:01 PDT 2008     root at slan.es.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IBM-T43  i386
>
> What is possibly notable is that I only started seeing this problem
> yesterday, right after upgrading to Gnome 2.22. It looks like the Gnome
> upgrade triggered something, possibly an interaction with the moused,
> sysmouse, or xf86-input-mouse.
>
> The system is a T43 using the internal keyboard and TrackPoint(tm).
>
> The Gnome upgrade was pretty smooth with everything building, but
> portupgrade complaining about some dependency loops. (I'll report about
> this to the Gnome list.)
>
> This is more than a bit annoying. It also impacts menus and scroll
> bars. I plan to drop back to my backup from before the Gnome upgrade.
>
> I can make config, xorg.conf, and dmesg available, but I can't see
> anything odd there.
>   
I actually also began experiencing this after the GNOME2 update. Very 
strange.

--
Coleman