Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: mouse still losing sync and thus jumping around | Date | Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:47:53 -0500 |
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On Monday 13 June 2005 16:40, Voluspa wrote: > > On 2005-02-23 16:53:04 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:29:49 +0100, Nils Kalchhauser wrote: > [...] > >> it seems to me like it is connected to disk activity... is that > >> possible? > > > Yes, It usually happens either under high load, when mouse interrupts > > are significantly delayed. Or sometimes it happen when applications > > poll battey status and on some boxes it takes pretty long time. And > > because it is usually the same chip that serves keyboard/mouse it > > again delays mouse interrupts. > > My notebook is an Acer Aspire 1520 (1524) with a Synaptics Touchpad, > model: 1, fw: 5.8, id: 0x9248b1, caps: 0x904713/0x4000 > > Kernels 2.6.11.11 and 2.6.12-rc6 > Synaptics driver 0.14.2 > > The "lost sync at byte" and "driver resynched" began flooding the logs > when I enabled Sensors --> Temperatures --> thermal_zone [THRC/THRS] in > the system monitor gkrellm. I haven't tried battery monitoring. > > There are only occasional mouse pointer jumps, but the logfiles grow > very quickly. I tried reducing the gkrellm updates from 10 times a > second to 2, but it only had a marginal effect. It seems a bit silly > that this powerful notebook (AMD64 Athlon 3400+) can't 'multitask' > correctly. >
Try setting frequency to once a minute, that should help.
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