mouse issue

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:30:07PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote:
> I have updated my ports and thereby gnome to 2.22 and also did a
> buildwolrd of RELENG_7
> 
> Now I have a strange issue that I need to move the mouse to see my
> commands typed I a console or wait a few seconds.
> 
> If I open a terminal (in gnome) and do a build of a port then the output
> stops for a moment when I hit an icon on the desktop with my mouse.
> 
> I do not know how to descripe this any better.
> 
> When I stop the moused then everything is working normally (without the
> mouse off course) when I start moused again from a terminal in gnome I
> can type commands but they do not show up in the terminal window till I
> move the mouse.

Others have reported something very similar to this:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-March/040982.html

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-March/041416.html

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