Sleepy X after today's rawhide update

[Horst H. von Brand]

Adam Huffman <adam.huffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> > Andrew Parker <andrewparker at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >
> >> After today's updates, I find that if I don't press a key or move the
> >> mouse for 2-5 seconds then the display freezes until I generate some
> >> input.
> >>
> >> Its rather like a ^S for X.  Its not that the display doesn't get
> >> updated, the processes generating output get held up, then continue as
> >> soon as I generate input.
> >>
> >> This happens immediately on login, so the login never completes unless
> >> I waggle the mouse.
> >>
> >> Curiously, a screensaver that I tried doesn't suffer from the same problem.
> >>
> >> This is on a Dell Inspiron 1410 laptop which has the following display adapter:
> >>
> >> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
> >> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
> >>
> >> xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.4.2-8.fc10.i386
> >>
> >
> > Toshiba Satellite Pro U400 here, similar (but much more benign) sympthoms:
> > Sometimes firefox (most noticeable, also others) graphical applications
> > just stop until I move the mouse or something such.
> >
> > Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> > xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.4.2-8.fc10.x86_64
> >
> I wonder whether this is related to the recent changes in the
> Synaptics driver?

> No sign of anything similar on another desktop with a mouse.

I'm not using the touchpad, but an USB mouse.
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