jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 29 12:21:08 UTC 2008


Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>> Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:30 pm, Teemu Korhonen wrote:
>>>>> Did anyone find a solution to the "jerky mouse" -problem? It still
>>>>> exists in 7.0-RELEASE.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have pretty much exact same symptoms as in this post:
>>>>>
>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039599.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can you try the attached patches for ports/x11-servers/xorg-server?  
>>>> Just drop them in files directory, rebuild, reinstall, etc...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jung-uk Kim
>>>
>>> I'm running RELENG_7 built the day before yesterday with SCHED_ULE. 
>>> Your patch doesn't improve anything for me. The system still locks up 
>>> entirely while the mouse is not in movement.
>>>
>>> Only not using moused helps.
>>
>> Your problem has different symptoms, so not entirely surprising that 
>> it doesn't help :)  Sounds more like that your mouse just isn't 
>> working properly with moused.
>>
>> Kris
>>
> 
> Oh, it works fine on the console. Only the combination moused/X clashes.

Well it doesn't rule it out.  X may be introducing latencies that are 
causing your mouse to lose sync or something.

Kris


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