Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:08:12 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: x11 <x11@FreeBSD.org>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: X pauses until mouse is moved Message-ID: <47E9B00C.5020409@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080325213134.F2C3C4500E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20080325213134.F2C3C4500E@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> >> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:07:00 -0400 >> Sender: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org >> >> This problem was originally reported on this list on March 5 >> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2008-March/006077.html). >> I am now seeing this on my RELENG_7 and -CURRENT boxes. Basically, all >> interaction with X is temporarily suspended until the mouse is moved. >> This only occurs when using /dev/sysmouse (thus when moused is enabled). >> If I disabled moused, and use /dev/psm0 directly, the problem goes away. >> >> My i386 RELENG_7 machine was working fine until I updated to: >> >> FreeBSD shumai.marcuscom.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #17: Mon Mar >> 24 15:32:39 EDT 2008 >> marcus@shumai.marcuscom.com:/build/obj/build/src/sys/SHUMAI i386 >> >> Prior to that I was running FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #16: Sat Mar 8 20:07:36 >> EST 2008. >> >> Also prior to that I had the xorg-server update that was supposed to fix >> jerky mouse movement. That didn't seem to trigger this problem. I >> thought it might have been related to the recent moused fix in RELENG_7, >> so I backed out the moused.c changes, but the problem persists. I also >> backed out the recent X mouse driver VT switch fix, but the problem >> persists. >> >> At least two other users have described similar problems. Any >> suggestions on what may be causing this? The only difference I spot in >> dmesg relates to CPU clock speed (off by 1/100 of a MHz). The working >> version of FreeBSD had: >> >> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5140 @ 2.33GHz (2327.52-MHz >> 686-class CPU) >> >> The current version has: >> >> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5140 @ 2.33GHz (2327.51-MHz >> 686-class CPU) >> >> A full (current) dmesg can be found at >> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/dmesg.shumai . >> > > I am seeing about the same thing here. My system is running: > FreeBSD slan.es.net 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #2: Mon Mar 17 21:39:01 PDT 2008 root@slan.es.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IBM-T43 i386 > > What is possibly notable is that I only started seeing this problem > yesterday, right after upgrading to Gnome 2.22. It looks like the Gnome > upgrade triggered something, possibly an interaction with the moused, > sysmouse, or xf86-input-mouse. > > The system is a T43 using the internal keyboard and TrackPoint(tm). > > The Gnome upgrade was pretty smooth with everything building, but > portupgrade complaining about some dependency loops. (I'll report about > this to the Gnome list.) > > This is more than a bit annoying. It also impacts menus and scroll > bars. I plan to drop back to my backup from before the Gnome upgrade. > > I can make config, xorg.conf, and dmesg available, but I can't see > anything odd there. > I actually also began experiencing this after the GNOME2 update. Very strange. -- Coleman
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