From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 13:11:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07D31065679; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:11:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7B88FC1C; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:11:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (p54A7C1E1.dip.t-dialin.net [84.167.193.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1FC405B1B; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:11:49 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47C80490.9080600@bsdforen.de> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:11:44 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <47C6FDD0.2040902@mbnet.fi> <200802281631.07844.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <47C7C611.2000609@bsdforen.de> <47C7F6D2.2000504@FreeBSD.org> <47C7F7B2.3020505@bsdforen.de> <47C7F8AE.5000506@FreeBSD.org> <47C7FC0F.7010905@bsdforen.de> <47C7FD5B.2040102@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47C7FD5B.2040102@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Teemu Korhonen , freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim Subject: Re: jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:11:52 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> Well it doesn't rule it out. X may be introducing latencies that are >>> causing your mouse to lose sync or something. >> >> It's not the mouse that hangs. >> It's the only thing that works, >> everything else hangs when I combine moused/X. This issue doesn't >> exist on all my systems, though. It existed on my old Thinkpad >> (Pentium-m 1.3 GHz), it exists on my new notebook (Core2 Duo with 2.4 >> GHz), but it doesn't exist on my P4 with 1.6 GHz. >> >> Key entries, animations, they all just pile up somewhere and happen >> all at once when I start using the mouse. To watch a movie I have to >> keep the mouse moving all the time. >> >> It's not a general X and mouse problem, because without moused in >> between everything works fine. I think at some point in time a bug was >> either introduced in moused, or in my opinion more likely, in the >> sysmouse protocol implementation in X. > > Could also be an interrupt issue. Either way it's still a different > issue to the ones in this thread. I always thought it's about the same thing and people were just imprecise in their perception. The P4 used to be affected by this, too. This changed somewhere around RC1, I think. Since all of my machines had encountered the problem since I switched them to RELENG_7, I thought my problem was very common and it's the one everyone is talking about.