Re: USB2, mouse and X

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:16:20PM +1100, Mattia Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen that there are a lot of issues with mice and the new USB2 stack, 
> but as my problem is still not resolved with the current kernel, i think 
> it's time to report my problem:
> 
> My mouse (or maybe keyboard?) issues regard only the X window system (I 
> tried fluxbox and KDE4). Mouse and keyboard are USB, attached via a USB hub 
> (integrated in my monitor). They both work without flaws in the console, 
> but it's a pain to write text in different windows in X. The typed text 
> just doesn't get displayed some times, unless the mouse cursor is moved. 
> Sometimes after typing some text, and moving the mouse afterwards, the text 
> gets written, but letters will  be grouped together and look like this:
> 
> this iss  whahatppen
> 
> (this is what happens)
> 
> Would be nice if this issue (which persists since the introduction of USB2) 
> could be solved.

I observed this problem a while ago on my laptop and it went away when I
stopped the hal daemon and restarted X. I havnt checked it recently but
it may be something you want to quickly test.

Andrew