Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:06:57 -0800 (PST) From: davidx@viasoft.com.cn To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/25439: annoying console mouse cursor flicker Message-ID: <200102280106.f1S16v477173@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 25439
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: annoying console mouse cursor flicker
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Feb 27 17:10:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: David Xu
>Release: FreeBSD 4.2-stable
>Organization:
viasoft
>Environment:
FreeBSD davidbsd.viasoft.com.cn 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #7: Tue Feb 27 15:
29:31 CST 2001 xyf@davidbsd.viasoft.com.cn:/usr/src/sys/compile/xu i386
>Description:
under system console, at first virtual console screen, if I move mouse cursor to left bottom corner, mouse cursor will flicker very fast, I need't do anything, there isn't any busy process, CPU idle time become
%82.
this is snapshot of top screen
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last pid: 323; load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 up 0+00:05:15 08:49:31
34 processes: 1 running, 33 sleeping
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 17.9% interrupt, 82.1% idle
Mem: 18M Active, 10M Inact, 8816K Wired, 64K Cache, 12M Buf, 22M Free
Swap: 128M Total, 128M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
305 nobody 2 0 8776K 8084K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% squid
238 root 2 0 4848K 4156K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd
191 root 2 0 2172K 1356K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd
323 xyf 28 0 1888K 1176K RUN 0:00 0.00% 0.00% top
322 xyf 18 0 1336K 948K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh
287 mysql 2 0 24984K 4744K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% mysqld
163 root 2 0 920K 616K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% syslogd
309 root 3 0 1052K 784K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% login
321 root 2 0 2148K 1244K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% telnetd
288 postgres 2 0 20476K 1536K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% postgres
244 root 10 0 636K 448K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh
251 postgres 18 0 1092K 620K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh
291 root 2 0 1924K 1420K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% nmbd
186 root 2 0 1036K 772K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% inetd
210 root 2 0 888K 500K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% moused
188 root 10 0 956K 736K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cron
313 root 3 0 928K 640K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
315 root 3 0 928K 640K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
310 root 3 0 928K 640K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
316 root 3 0 928K 640K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
312 root 3 0 928K 640K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
314 root 3 0 928K 640K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
311 root 3 0 928K 640K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty
300 root 10 0 628K 440K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh
317 nobody -6 0 844K 364K piperd 0:00 0.00% 0.00% unlinkd
264 nobody 2 0 4872K 4156K accept 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd
265 nobody 2 0 4872K 4156K accept 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd
260 nobody 2 0 4872K 4156K accept 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd
262 nobody 2 0 4872K 4156K accept 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd
263 nobody 2 0 4872K 4156K accept 0:00 0.00% 0.00% httpd
289 root 2 0 2372K 1520K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% smbd
166 daemon 2 0 920K 504K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% portmap
193 root 2 0 892K 592K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% usbd
dmesg text
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Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #7: Tue Feb 27 15:29:31 CST 2001
xyf@davidbsd.viasoft.com.cn:/usr/src/sys/compile/xu
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (501.14-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5
Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
real memory = 67043328 (65472K bytes)
avail memory = 60010496 (58604K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc044c000.
Preloaded elf module "accf_http.ko" at 0xc044c09c.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <NVidia Riva Ultra Vanta TNT2 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xe000-0xe01f irq 10 at device 7.2 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0x5000-0x500f at device 7.3 on pci0
rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xd9000000-0xd90000ff irq 5 at device 10.0 on pci0
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:4c:6b:dc:5e
miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model 4D+ Mouse, device ID 8
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
ad0: 14655MB <Maxtor 31536H2> [29777/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140H> at ata1-slave using PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
don't know, but I think FreeBSD's mouse driver seems weird, from 4.0 to 4.2, the bug is still there. it is very annoying.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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