From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 13:21:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304741065675; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:21:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF91D8FC18; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <47C806D5.9050000@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:21:25 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Fandrey 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> <47C80490.9080600@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <47C80490.9080600@bsdforen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Teemu Korhonen , freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim Subject: Re: jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:21:30 -0000 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > 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. No, I've seen no-one reporting similar symptoms. Kris