Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:17:50 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: Teemu Korhonen <teemu.korhonen@mbnet.fi>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <47C805FE.5010607@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47C80490.9080600@bsdforen.de> 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>
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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. Perhaps this is related to the CX / cpu idle level problems we've been experiencing on a lot of hardware? What is the output of "sysctl -a | grep cx" on your system? -- Coleman
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