Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:38:32 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: x11 <x11@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: X pauses until mouse is moved Message-ID: <1206481112.78661.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20080325213134.F2C3C4500E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20080325213134.F2C3C4500E@ptavv.es.net>
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--=-30t6+cbeyruc0C8z/0LZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:31 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> > > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:07:00 -0400 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org > >=20 > > This problem was originally reported on this list on March 5 > > (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2008-March/006077.html)= . > > I am now seeing this on my RELENG_7 and -CURRENT boxes. Basically, all > > interaction with X is temporarily suspended until the mouse is moved. > > This only occurs when using /dev/sysmouse (thus when moused is enabled)= . > > If I disabled moused, and use /dev/psm0 directly, the problem goes away= . > >=20 > > My i386 RELENG_7 machine was working fine until I updated to: > >=20 > > FreeBSD shumai.marcuscom.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #17: Mon Mar > > 24 15:32:39 EDT 2008 > > marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com:/build/obj/build/src/sys/SHUMAI i386 > >=20 > > Prior to that I was running FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #16: Sat Mar 8 20:07:36 > > EST 2008. > >=20 > > Also prior to that I had the xorg-server update that was supposed to fi= x > > jerky mouse movement. That didn't seem to trigger this problem. I > > thought it might have been related to the recent moused fix in RELENG_7= , > > so I backed out the moused.c changes, but the problem persists. I also > > backed out the recent X mouse driver VT switch fix, but the problem > > persists. > >=20 > > At least two other users have described similar problems. Any > > suggestions on what may be causing this? The only difference I spot in > > dmesg relates to CPU clock speed (off by 1/100 of a MHz). The working > > version of FreeBSD had: > >=20 > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5140 @ 2.33GHz (2327.52-MHz > > 686-class CPU) > >=20 > > The current version has: > >=20 > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5140 @ 2.33GHz (2327.51-MHz > > 686-class CPU) > >=20 > > A full (current) dmesg can be found at > > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/dmesg.shumai . >=20 > I am seeing about the same thing here. My system is running: > FreeBSD slan.es.net 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #2: Mon Mar 17 21:39:01= PDT 2008 root@slan.es.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IBM-T43 i386 >=20 > What is possibly notable is that I only started seeing this problem > yesterday, right after upgrading to Gnome 2.22. It looks like the Gnome > upgrade triggered something, possibly an interaction with the moused, > sysmouse, or xf86-input-mouse. >=20 > The system is a T43 using the internal keyboard and TrackPoint(tm). >=20 > The Gnome upgrade was pretty smooth with everything building, but > portupgrade complaining about some dependency loops. (I'll report about > this to the Gnome list.) If you follow /usr/ports/UPDATING these loops will go away. There are no real loops. It may require you to run pkgdb -fF a few times, though. >=20 > This is more than a bit annoying. It also impacts menus and scroll > bars. I plan to drop back to my backup from before the Gnome upgrade. >=20 > I can make config, xorg.conf, and dmesg available, but I can't see > anything odd there. I have a GNOME 2.22 machine with a USB mouse running -CURRENT from March 6 which is not seeing this problem. I've also seen the issue running a failsafe xterm with no window manager, and no gnome-session. If the GNOME update introduced this problem, I'm not sure how. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-30t6+cbeyruc0C8z/0LZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkfpcNQACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4ebnwCghdX01BN82OjCCx3igxDzASpH Gp8AnArugx1c/gPiXLQALXFumPiCE/Mb =zKkD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-30t6+cbeyruc0C8z/0LZ--
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