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Re: Jerky Mouse Movement - SOLVED!



> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:42:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > After a dist-upgrade from Sarge to testing and to a kernel built from 
> > linux-source-2.6.17 my mice - one old fashioned ball mouse and one Wacom 
> > Graphire mouse - only move in jumps and starts.    Clearly there is 
> > something wrong with my setup but I am having difficulty finding the 
> > fault.  I built the 2.6.17 with the same .config I used with a 2.6.11 
> > kernel and Sarge and both mice worked perfectly before the upgrade.

On 29.10.06 16:36, Thomas H. George wrote:
> Solution: Do NOT compile the kernel with Processor types and
> features/Local APIC support on uniprocessors.  Without this the Wacom
> Graphire 4 Tablet mouse runs as smooth as silk; finest mouse I've ever
> had.

I have uniprocessor machine(s) with apic/lapic and have no problem with
them. However, some apic implementations (e.g. dell notebooks) are broken.
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