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FS#17234 - [hal] mouse panic

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by ozar (ozar) - Saturday, 21 November 2009, 17:51 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 22 November 2009, 11:29 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

There might be a minor bug going on with hal, version 0.5.13-3

Intermittent mouse panic issues have been occurring for about 2 weeks now on both, my Gnome 2.28.x box, and my KDE 4.3.x box. All packages are current on both systems, except for the hal package which has been downgraded to 0.5.13-2, and that appears to fix the mouse panic problem.

The mouse seems to go into this panic mode randomly, about every 15 to 30 minutes. The mouse cursor can be moved around on screen when in panic mode, but it doesn't track properly and appears to be very shaky or jittery making it very difficult to control. The panic usually subsides in about 15-20 seconds, and the mouse seems to be somewhat normal again, except that when moving the cursor around on web pages, it often seems to move around randomly just a bit as it nears any clickable link and it seems to be unstable and harder to control than normal at that time.

Again, reverting back to 0.5.13-2 seems to clear up these issues.

xorg.conf is attached should it contain anything of value.

Thank you...

   xorg.conf (0.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 22 November 2009, 11:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 21 November 2009, 18:30 GMT
Hal has nothing to do with mouse events going crazy. The only thing that hal might do here is adding and removing your mouse all the time, causing xorg to freak out because of constantly changing devices. I have pushed new versions of xf86-video-evdev and xorg-server to the repository today, those should fix some issues with evdev.
Comment by ozar (ozar) - Saturday, 21 November 2009, 18:52 GMT
Sounds good... thanks!

I tried previous versions of xorg-server and xf86-video-evdev before posting the bug, but they didn't seem to help. So far, the only change that seems to have helped was the hal downgrade, but I'll try the new packages you mention above once they hit my repo and then report back.

Thanks again...
Comment by ozar (ozar) - Sunday, 22 November 2009, 05:27 GMT
JGC, I've updated all packages now and the mouse has been stable so one of the new packages must have fixed the issue.

Thanks again! :)

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