Re: [bug] Mouse jumps randomly in x kernel 2.6.18

From: Bob Reinkemeyer
Date: Mon Aug 21 2006 - 18:32:58 EST


On Sunday 20 August 2006 20:52, you wrote:
> On Sunday 20 August 2006 19:23, Bob Reinkemeyer wrote:
> > just to be clear, is this all you want to revert, or do you want all
> > similar fuctions reverted?
>
> Just the part Poszar quoted - we have a report from another user that
> removing only 2nd part of the explorer 4.0 magic knock cures mouse
> jumpiness.

This worked as well. Tested in vanilla, a ck based, and an mm based kernel.
worked well in all.
>
> > Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:38:50PM -0500, Bob Reinkemeyer wrote:
> > >> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > >>> On 8/16/06, Bob Reinkemeyer <bigbob73@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>> I have an issue where my mouse jumps around the screen randomly in X
> > >>>> only. It works correctly in a vnc window. The mouse is a Microsoft
> > >>>> wireless optical intellimouse. This was tested in 2.6.18-rc1-rc4
> > >>>> and observed in all. my config for .18 can be found here...
> > >>>> http://rafb.net/paste/results/5cyWFd48.html
> > >>>>
> > >>>> and for .17 here...
> > >>>> http://rafb.net/paste/results/xdFUkU58.html
> > >>>
> > >>> Does it help if you revert this patch:
> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;
> > >>>a=commit;h=b0c9ad8e0ff154f8c4730b8c4383f49b846c97c4
> > >>
> > >> that fixed it. Thanks!
> > >
> > > Could you try only reverting this part please?
> > >
> > > + param[0] = 200;
> > > + ps2_command(ps2dev, param, PSMOUSE_CMD_SETRATE);
> > > + param[0] = 200;
> > > + ps2_command(ps2dev, param, PSMOUSE_CMD_SETRATE);
> > > + param[0] = 60;
> > > + ps2_command(ps2dev, param, PSMOUSE_CMD_SETRATE);
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