periodic mouse freezes/jumps on Hoary

[Jim Richardson]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 17:44 +0000, Baza wrote:
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> On 23/3/05 5:33 pm, "Mario Vukelic" <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
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> > 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.
> 
> Baza
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> 
> 

I see much the same thing (plus kbd stutter) on an Inspiron 8100, didn't
see this on other distros, have tried killing powernowd and will see if
that fixes it (seems to, observing for the last few minutes)
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