On Wednesday 13 February 2002 02:50 pm, christophe barbé wrote: > I see the same problem with a USB mouse. > It occurs only when I am using the mouse and when the CPU is occupied. > I can restore the mouse by switching to the console and then back to X > or by unpluging and re-pluging the mouse. > > I am not sure but I have the impression that it occurs less since I've > enabled IRQ during BIOS APM call in my kernel config. > > I believe it's a timeout somewhere which is triggered when the CPU can't > process an event soon enough. > I'm not sure where it is. What I found stranger is that X said nothing > about it (all logs are empty of mouse related messages). > Until today I was thinking it was USB related but we got two reports of > this problem in the same day with PS/2 mouse.
I had some similar problems after installing a new motherboard and video card. I spent quite a lot of time working with the video card and nothing helped. I also noticed that it happened when the hard drive was busy. I finally ran hdparm and found that the new motherboard didn't set dma on the hard drive. I ran this command: hdparm -X66 -d1 -u1 /dev/hda and my transfer rates went from 2.44 to 19.69 and my problems were over. Perhaps that will help you, as well. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bigfork, MT. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
