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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:50:04 +0800
From:      "Eric L. Chen" <d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Teemu Korhonen <teemu.korhonen@mbnet.fi>, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <1204595404.1620.4.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <47C806D5.9050000@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:21 +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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

Hi Kris,
I have this problem, too.
If moused is enabled, use /dev/sysmouse in xorg.conf, X11 will freeze if
mouse not moving.
If moused is disabled, use /dev/psm0 in xorg.conf.
Every thing works fine.
I am running 7-STATBEL/i386.

/Eric

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