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