[NCLUG] Mouse Sticks to Widgets After Upgrade to RH 7.3

[Marcio Luis Teixeira]

Hi there,

Yesterday I upgraded to RH 7.3 and I've run into a very frustrating problem. 
The mouse movement is very jumpy and the mouse cursor has a tendency to 
"stick" to the boundary of widgets on the screen. Interestingly, the problem 
only occurs on the vertical axis and not on the horizontal one (at first I 
thought my mouse was dirty, but then I started to notice that the mouse stuck 
to widget boundaries).

Anyhow, the problem seems to get worse when there are a lot of things running. 
Sometimes the problem gets so bad that it becomes nearly impossible to move 
the mouse off a widget. I've read something about "gpm" conflicting with X 
when using PS/2 mice (such as my Microsoft Intellimouse), and I have been 
killing it -- this helps some, but doesn't solve it completely.

The only other clue I have is that each time the mouse sticks, the system load 
peaks. I believe these things are connected, though I would find it to be 
very disturbing if simply moving the mouse over widgets in KDE 3.0 would 
bring a 200 MHz Pentium II to it's knees (I never had any problems with RH 
7.1)

Any ideas as to what may be going on here?

Marcio Luis Teixeira







Marcio Luis Teixeira