Bug 1295 - Mouse with pressed Ctrl randomly freezes
Summary: Mouse with pressed Ctrl randomly freezes
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Input/Mouse (show other bugs)
Version: 6.7.0
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: high major
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2004-09-06 02:15 UTC by Martin Schovanek
Modified: 2006-04-03 09:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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/var/log/Xorg.0.log (after 2nd freeze) (40.56 KB, text/plain)
2004-09-06 02:32 UTC, Martin Schovanek
no flags Details

Description Martin Schovanek 2004-09-06 02:15:00 UTC
When I press Ctrl and moving with mouse (e.g. opening link in mozilla-tab,
multiselection in a list) the mouse randomly but often (4 times per hour) freezes.
Then I must switch to another console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and back (Ctrl+Alt+F7)
to release the mouse.

To reproduce:
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1) press Ctrl key
2) circle mouse around screen
ERROR: the mouse freezes (usually in 10 sec.)

$ X -version
Release Date: 18 December 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-14.ELsmp i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux martin-ws.rest.removed.com 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat
May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686
Build Date: 07 May 2004
Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com

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Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (bhcompile@bugs.build.redhat.com) (gcc
version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
Comment 1 Martin Schovanek 2004-09-06 02:32:33 UTC
Created attachment 827 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log (after 2nd freeze)
Comment 2 Martin Schovanek 2004-09-08 08:21:29 UTC
Sorry for my impatience but can someone to evaluate this bug. I would like to
know is worth to wait for a fix or return back to the XFree branch. Thanks for
any response.
Comment 3 Dimitri Papadopoulos 2005-02-28 02:30:59 UTC
Ah, we can reproduce something like that. We added this comment in another thread:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2345
However this thread seems more relevant.

Common symptoms:
* Must press Ctrl key to reproduce the mouse freeze.
* Switching virtual consoles releases the mouse.

Other than that, we reproduce that only with Fedora 2, not Red Hat 9, but we run
the "native" X server on Red Hat 9 (XFree86 4.3.0), not Xorg.

We also see similar things in the logs:
	(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
	(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1600x1200"
	(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
However this is printed when switching consoles to restore the mouse, *not* at
the moment the mouse freezes, and this seems harmless anyway (APM is missing but
that's to be expected).

Again, any clue on how to proceed to track down the problem?
Comment 4 Erik Andren 2006-04-02 22:52:41 UTC
Do you still experience this issue with a current version of xorg?
Comment 5 Martin Schovanek 2006-04-04 02:08:53 UTC
No, in Version 6.8.2 I cannot reproduce it any more.
Comment 6 Daniel Stone 2006-04-04 02:38:42 UTC
thanks for following up


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