periodic mouse freezes/jumps on Hoary

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On 23/3/05 5:33 pm, "Mario Vukelic" <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 14:20 -0500, David Feldman wrote:
>> I've just installed Hoary on a Dell Inspiron 4000 (pentium 3 610MHz
>> laptop), and I'm excited to see a lot of terrific additions since
>> Warty. One problem, though: The mouse cursors will periodically and
>> temporarily freeze when I'm moving it around, just for a moment, and
>> then resume its course. It happens frequently enough to be a serious
>> issue, and happens whether I'm using the built-in touchpad or a USB
>> external mouse.
> 
> I saw the same thing on an HP nc6000. Went away when I switched to the
> synaptics driver for Xorg (package xorg-driver-synaptics)
> 


I'm seeing the same on a Dell Dimension 2400 with the Dell mouse. At first I
thought the 'ball rollers' were dirty, but after giving them a -good- clean
the issue remains.

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