From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 31 6: 6: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mailer2.webgiro.com [213.162.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EFDA37B409 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 06:05:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: from webgiro.com (mailer2.webgiro.com [213.162.131.18]) by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A3A68469; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:28:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3B66AC66.4B513C67@webgiro.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:02:30 +0200 From: Andrzej Bialecki Organization: WebGiro AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Raymond Kohler Cc: d_maddox@bellsouth.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: just moved to current, mouse is jerky References: <20010729220633.13c2e2fe.rkohler1@cox.rr.com> <3B65084A.EBDA7329@bellsouth.net> <001501c1195c$0d98fc20$ea01a8c0@cox.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Raymond Kohler wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donald J. Maddox" > To: > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:10 AM > Subject: Re: just moved to current, mouse is jerky > > > Try not using /dev/{u}random (don't load random.ko at boot). The random > > device uses mouse interrupts to harvest entropy, and it can cause some > > real jerkiness in the mouse. Of course, if you need to use something > > that really NEEDS good randomness, like SSH, then not loading random.ko > > is not really an option :( > > Actually, I'm not loading Yarrow in the first place. That's why I think this > is weird. > (That and the fact that the last time I tried current, just after the > 4.0-RELEASE was > split off, this was already happening.) It only happens on this box and > apparently > nobody else sees this exact problem (the last time I asked about it, back > then, > nobody answered it). I'm going to try it as a serial mouse and see what > happens. Are you running a fresh current? It happened to me about 2-3 weeks ago - exactly the same symptoms, but then last Friday I did a 'make world' and the problem disappeared. I'm running Inspiron 5000, using internal track-pad (/dev/psm0, ps/2 mouse), no fancy modules settings, just plain -current - whether this loads random.ko I have no idea ATM. -- Andrzej // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // Andrzej Bialecki , Chief System Architect // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message