USB mouse movement is jerky

Salvio salvio at geneticmail.com
Mon Dec 15 16:30:48 UTC 2003


Anyone has any thoughts?

Salvio wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Laptop Dell CPx (it has a touchpad and one USB port)
> using Fedora Core 1 - latest updated packages - and
> X (Gnome).
>
> My Logitech USB mouse works but every sencond or so
> it stops responding for a fraction of a second and
> then resumes working ok.
>
> I have tried a number of different mice in the gnome
> mouse configuration with no luck. My mouse is not
> listed. I'm now using a generic wheel mouse.
>
> Please note that when I had RedHat 9 installed on
> this same laptop the mouse never gave me any problems.
>
> I have to start my kernel using"acpi=on" because of
> a conflict between my USB port and the PCMCIA network
> card. Could this be related to my problem?
>
>
> Case 1
> ======
> Start the laptop with nothing plugged in the USB port.
>
> Result is that the touchpad works fine.
>
>
> Case 2
> ======
> Start the laptop with my logitech mouse plugged in
> the USB port.
>
> Result is that the mouse works. Movement is jerky.
>
> If I unplug the USB mouse, the touchpad doesn't work.
> If I plug the mouse back in it resumes working (still
> jerky though).
>
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Salvio
>
>
>
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