Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (20 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 16:44 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Dominique Leuenberger
> <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have several Dell Precision M4300 Notebooks, they all suffer from the
> > same problem:
> >
> > Once in a while (to frequent... normally after a short break, while
> > reading something), the mouse stutters and only works again after about
> > 30 seconds. Mostly it happens if the mouse was not used for a while.
> >
> > It is quiet annoying as you can imagine ;)
> >
> > My normal configuration is openSUSE 11.0, with the proprietary nVidia
> > driver, compiz activated.
> >
> > In process of elimination, I disabled compiz, mouse continues
> > stuttering.
> > Next step was to use the nv driver instead of nvidia, mouse stutterig
> > still happens.
> >
> > Does anybody know of a trick that's missing here?
> >
> > Thanks for all your suggestions,
> > Dominique
>
> Mouse has almost nothing to do with your video drivers.
>
> How about telling us about the mouse?
> USB? Wireless? Bluetooth?
>
> A usb mouse on the same USB controller as a network card
> can run out of bandwidth.
>
> A wireless mouse might be going into battery save mode.
> (when did you last change batteries?)

Correct, ALMOST nothing ;)... but there are options swmouse or hwmouse
(which, in fact did not change).

The problem happens with the internal touchpad, the internal pointer and
with an externam usb mouse.

Dominique


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