From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 17 17:41:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BEC2106566C for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:41:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mail-gw6.njit.edu (mail-gw6.njit.edu [128.235.251.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F3B8FC13 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gilgamesh.maestro (dhcp114-142.njit.edu [128.235.114.142]) by mail-gw6.njit.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2HH5kTi028285 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:05:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BA10BEA.1060303@wallnet.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:05:46 -0400 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100226 Thunderbird/3.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <10E075E52DED228526F5ECAB@utd65257.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <10E075E52DED228526F5ECAB@utd65257.utdallas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Irritating delay in mouse in kde4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:41:04 -0000 On 03/17/10 12:22, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 7.2 STABLE to 8.0 STABLE. I also > upgraded from KDE3 to KDE4 and rebuilt all my ports. Everything seems > to work fine except the mouse. There is an irritating delay that I > can't seem to get rid of. For example, if I mouse to the address line > in Firefox and begin typing in a url, nothing happens until I move the > mouse. Then, suddenly, what I typed will appear in the address bar. > > If I'm working in a shell, for example running portupgrade, nothing > happens until I move the mouse. Then suddenly portupgrade will start > working. > > Has anyone seen this type of behavior? Have any idea what the cause > might be or where to look to troubleshoot the issue? > Paul, I had that exact symptom when I upgraded my kde3 ports and upgraded Xorg at the same time. It drove me nuts for a few days until I found the solution. I have some notes I have to go through but I'll post what I did from my notes as soon as I get a chance to review them. (I was tunning 7.2 -STABLE at the time) Tim Kellers NJIT