USB2, mouse and X
Andrew Thompson
thompsa at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 18 08:23:56 PDT 2009
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:16:20PM +1100, Mattia Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen that there are a lot of issues with mice and the new USB2 stack,
> but as my problem is still not resolved with the current kernel, i think
> it's time to report my problem:
>
> My mouse (or maybe keyboard?) issues regard only the X window system (I
> tried fluxbox and KDE4). Mouse and keyboard are USB, attached via a USB hub
> (integrated in my monitor). They both work without flaws in the console,
> but it's a pain to write text in different windows in X. The typed text
> just doesn't get displayed some times, unless the mouse cursor is moved.
> Sometimes after typing some text, and moving the mouse afterwards, the text
> gets written, but letters will be grouped together and look like this:
>
> this iss whahatppen
>
> (this is what happens)
>
> Would be nice if this issue (which persists since the introduction of USB2)
> could be solved.
I observed this problem a while ago on my laptop and it went away when I
stopped the hal daemon and restarted X. I havnt checked it recently but
it may be something you want to quickly test.
Andrew
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