Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:30:07 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: cokane@FreeBSD.org 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: <47C808DF.6030702@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <47C805FE.5010607@FreeBSD.org> 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> <47C805FE.5010607@FreeBSD.org>
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Coleman Kane 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. > 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? # sysctl -a|grep cx hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/1 C2/1 C3/17 dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% 0.00% dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/1 C2/1 C3/17 dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% 0.00%
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