Problem with Gnome on IBM Thinkpad R31 (erratic mouse movement)

[Paul Sladen]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Johann Spies wrote:

Hello Johann,

[..I have an R31..]

> It was working reasonably stable after I disabled the battery monitor
> (which made the mouse going haywire) until the latest aptitude
> dist-upgrade.  

This is not related to GNOME, but is related to the all-in-one chip on the
board that handles both power-management and mouse/keyboard handling.

The cause (as you located before) is down to the chip getting confused every
time the chip is queried by the battery applet.  A solution is to append:

  i8042.nomux=1

to the kernel parameters.

	-Paul
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