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I'm having the same exact problem with my mouse. I'm on AMD64 and my |
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cursor often jumps to a corner. |
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Is there a fix? |
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-Chris |
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On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sunday 28 December 2008 22:52:08 Dale wrote: |
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>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> > It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor |
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>>> > movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's |
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>>> > not a point yet where I would describe it as unusable, but if the |
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>>> > trend continues, desktop will be totally unusable by 2.6.31/32 when |
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>>> > doing something that produces load. |
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>>> So it is not just me that has screwy mouse movement. I been using a old |
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>>> kernel for a while now and even thought it was just a wrong setting on |
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>>> my part. |
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>>> |
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>>> Has anyone been telling the kernel folks about this problem so they can |
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>>> fix it or roll something back? |
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> |
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> Getting in a little late but my AMD64 machine's mouse died so I |
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> grabbed a VERY cheap $6 Microsoft mouse I had received for free some |
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> years ago and never used. It works but often jumps to one corner or |
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> another at odd times. It sits atop one of my Gentoo Linux mouse pads |
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> and I've noticed that if I turn the mouse pad 45 degrees it happens |
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> far more often. |
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> I figured it was just a cheap mouse. It hadn't occurred to me that it |
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> might be a driver issue... |
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> - Mark |
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