X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities)

[Coleman Kane]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> I'm trying to get a list of commonalities to better focus my 
> troubleshooting.  So far, my two machines that are affected have the 
> following in common:
>
> GNOME 2.22 (with hald)
> nVidia graphics card (though different drivers)
> PS/2 mouse
> dual core
> ULE scheduler
>
> My one machine that is not affected differs from this in that it has 
> an Intel graphics card, USB mouse, and is not dual core (but HTT).
>
> It looks like Coleman has a PS/2 mouse as well.  It's starting to look 
> like the mouse technology might have something to do with this.  
> Anyone seeing this problem with a USB mouse?
My setup (as per above) is:
ATI Radeon X1270 (xf86-video-radeonhd from git, not from ports)
PS/2 mouse (only happens when moused/sysmouse are involved)
dual core (Athlon64 X2)
ULE Scheduler on FreeBSD/amd64

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Coleman