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aw3k

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Registered: 2011-07-12

Posts: 5

Mouse moves in a broken manner

When I use my USB mouse on my laptop, the cursor behaves as if I'm playing cool 3D strategy on the old hardware. It doesn't move smoothly but jerks. I tried to use other mouse but the problem remains.

I'm not sure you're getting what problem I'm talking about, so there is a screencast video on the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llFse24E0so

Video driver is ATI catalyst, xorg.conf is default generated with aticonfig. IIRC, when I had open-source driver I had the same problem

dmesg excerpt:

[    6.155104] input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb4/4-3/4-3:1.0/input/input14
[    6.155212] generic-usb 0003:046D:C040.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:12.0-3/input0

$ dmesg | less
[alex@port ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Dell Device 9602
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)

StenM

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 33

Re: Mouse moves in a broken manner

I guess you have a high DPI mouse so you could try to start play with mouse polling rate:
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_Polling_Rate

and also you could look at settings different parameters via xinput:
    http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Develo … celeration

If you have laser one like Logitech M705, there could be also some problem if you use it on surface with wooden pattern, I think that something like that was mention in its manual.

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aw3k

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Registered: 2011-07-12

Posts: 5

Re: Mouse moves in a broken manner

The problem is better described in the other thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123761