[Fedora-xen] Strange mouse issue (F7 & F8 xen kernel with vncviewer running)

Dustin Henning Dustin.Henning at prd-inc.com
Fri May 30 20:48:00 UTC 2008


	I have been experiencing this (rather strange) issue for as long as
I have been a member of this group, and I am curious as to whether anyone
else has experienced it.  The mouse will continue on in the direction I am
moving it after I stop, change direction, or even suddenly reverse
direction.  Once this happens, the mouse inevitably ends up in one of the
four corners of the screen, and will eventually stop trying to travel in
that direction, at which point I can control it again.  It seems like
hitting some keys may cause this to happen sooner.  The keys I most often go
for are Esc, Alt, Ctrl, Super, Alt+F1, Arrows.  Which keys usually depends
on what is up in the vncviewer window, where I don't want to issue the wrong
command to whatever client I may be working with.  I have made the following
observations regarding this behavior, though I can't say with absolute
certainty that they are all 100% accurate and/or consistent:
	-keyboard and mouse are PS/2
	-in all instances, hvm guests were running, consuming as much as 5
out of 8 GiB of memory on this machine
	-never experienced in standard kernel on F7 or F8 (even with
multiple kvm guests and vncviewers running, though not to consume 5 of 8
GiB)
	-originally, in F7, vncviewer may not have been running every time
it happened
	-now, in F8, vncviewer has definitely been running every time it
happened, but not necessarily connected to anything
	-same issue was previously experienced on another machine with less
memory (and less guests) on F7
	Is this a known issue of any sort?  It has recently occurred to me
that I should try a different client, and I will do that at some point, but
I figured it wouldn't hurt to see if there have been any other similar
experiences out there in the meantime.  Thanks,
	Dustin





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