Mouse jumping, keys skipping?

tkbx · 2014-02-26 03:41:16

Ever since I installed arch earlier, it's been impossible to use the mouse or keyboard. The mouse kind of freezes then unfreezes if I move it any more than extremely slowly, and keys seem to randomly not work (I have to type my password 3-4 times on average). To give you an idea, it took me over 5 minutes to type and correct what I've written in this post so far. What could be wrong?

EDIT: To clarify, mouse is a trackpad, my external mouse seems to work better.

Last edited by tkbx (2014-02-26 03:44:46)

ewaller · 2014-02-26 03:48:03

Bad disk drive (lots of I/O errors)
Page Faults / Page Swapping to the point where the system is thrashing?

tkbx · 2014-02-26 03:59:17

ewaller wrote:

Bad disk drive (lots of I/O errors)
Page Faults / Page Swapping to the point where the system is thrashing?

It was working fine 3 hours ago under Debian, so I doubt there's a problem with the disk drive, and I haven't made a swap partition yet so it couldn't be thrashing related, right?

I should probably clarify, the mouse isn't "freezing", just kind of "getting stuck" for a fraction of a second every second or so, making it tough to actually put it somewhere I need it

Last edited by tkbx (2014-02-26 04:02:18)

ewaller · 2014-02-26 04:27:09

How much free memory have you? What is the output of free -t ?

epsilom · 2014-02-26 04:50:42

I have the same problem! I don't know what happen, I tried using the linux-lts and nothing...

the only solution is disable the touchpad and use external mouse

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Mouse jumping, keys skipping?

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