Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:11:44 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Teemu Korhonen <teemu.korhonen@mbnet.fi>, freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <47C80490.9080600@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <47C7FD5B.2040102@FreeBSD.org> 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>
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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.
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