Mouse slow and jumpy in FC6 upgrade

Gringo5000 · #1 2006-11-11, 10:31 AM CST

Greetings,
I recently upgraded (via yum) my FC5 install to FC6. Everything went smoothly except for my mouse. I have a logitech USB wheel mouse. It's pretty standard and works fine elsewhere, however in my FC6 it's slow and reluctant to follow my initiative. It jumps around and sometimes goes in the wrong direction. A long time ago, I would have similar problems when the wrong mouse type was detected, but all seems well in my xorg.conf. I've tried regenerating it multiple times with no success. GPM also exhibits the same behavior. I went to run system-config-mouse, but it fails, as well as "setup -> mouse." In both cases they are missing the rhpl mouse module. I did some checking and it appears in the current version of rhpl, there is no mouse module anyway.

I did a similar upgrade from FC4 to FC5 with no problems, but now I'm stumped. Any suggestions? Much thanks,
Gringo

Gringo5000 · #2 2006-11-11, 12:20 PM CST

I copied over the rhpl mouse.py* modules from an fc5 install I have and I could run system-config-mouse, but it already has the right mouse: Generic USB wheel mouse. I selected to not emulate 3 buttons. I'm still having the same problems though.

mwette · #3 2006-11-12, 06:32 PM CST

What type of processor and motherboard chipset to you have?
I have a Dell C521 box w/ AMD X2 and nVidia chipset and have
been reading about usb mouse problems with this combination
(nvidia and AMD). Some folks are using add-on ucb boards to
circumvent the mouse problems.

Gringo5000 · #4 2006-11-13, 08:20 AM CST

I have an Athlon 1700+ (nothing too sexy) on an MSI K7T mobo, IIRC. It has a Via KT133A Northbridge and Via VT82C686B Southbridge.

Also, I thought it might be a kernel/USB problem, but I went and dug up an old PS/2 mouse and it had the _same_ problem. Very strange if you ask me.

Gringo5000 · #5 2006-11-21, 10:32 PM CST

I think I found the problem with mine. The FC6 UP kernel is actually an SMP
kernel! I throw in a noapic to the cmdline and it works, but as you can see here:

[me@mybox ~]$ uname -a
Linux 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:45:28 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386
GNU/Linux
[me@mybox ~]$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6