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

[Johann Spies]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:24:43PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> 
> [..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.

Thanks Paul,  I did not know about this one. It seems to make a big
difference.

Regards
Johann
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