USB mouse movement is jerky

[Travis Fraser]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 01:50, Steve Cape wrote:
> 
> I've done a fresh install of Fedora Core 1 on a Dell Latitude C600 <snip>
> 
> ---with "acpi=on" shutdown doesn't work completely. It appears to go through the
> whole shutdown
> process, but hangs with a blank screen after "power down". I haven't seen a
> solution posted that
> works for me.
> 
The Fedora 2.4 kernel does not have the latest ACPI patches. I used a
small patch from the newest ACPI code that enables poweroff on shutdown
for the version of ACPI that comes with updated kernel; if you want it,
email me off list.

> ---with "acpi=on" USB mouse movement is jerky for me as well. I keep a System
> Monitor applet
> on my panel and noticed regular spikes in processor activity, which I correlated
> to the Battery
> Charge Monitor applet (battstat-applet-2). I removed this applet from my panel
> and mouse
> movement is no longer jerky. Don't know why this works (something to do with
> acpi, probably).
> This is not really a good solution since you can't monitor the battery charge,
> but I will use it until
> I find a true fix.
>
I had to patch the battstat applet to get it to work with ACPI. See
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104292 and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129167.
 
Travis Fraser