jerky mouse still in 7.0-RELEASE

[Kris Kennaway]

Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>> Your problem has different symptoms, so not entirely surprising that 
>>>> it doesn't help :)  Sounds more like that your mouse just isn't 
>>>> working properly with moused.
>>>
>>> Oh, it works fine on the console. Only the combination moused/X clashes.
>>
>> 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.

OK, that was unclear from your initial wording.

 > 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.

Kris