Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 22, 2003 Report Share Posted February 22, 2003 I'm sure this is a software problem. I'm running Gnome/Sawfish and I have a Microsoft Optical PS/2 mouse and I set up wvdial to run in the background using the modem_lights applet in Gnome (with the command 'wvdial &') That sends it to tty1, which is the same vt that I login to and startx from, so I thought that might be causing my problems. So, I changed the command in modem_lights to 'open -c 2 /usr/bin/wvdial' to send it to tty2, but I still get the same mouse lag/hang for a few seconds while it does it's thing. Once I'm logged into the net and pppd is started the mouse fixes itself until I click to disconnect (command is 'killall wvdial') and the mouse lags/hangs until the process is killed. I'm running an AMD 750 with an NVidia Riva TNT (32 MB) video card with the latest NVidia drivers built from *.src.rpm and 384 MB RAM (PC100): omar:~/tmp> free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 386140 370692 15448 0 73272 185576 -/+ buffers/cache: 111844 274296 Swap: 240932 27924 213008 I also should add that if I get booted from the net and wvdial does its auto-reconnect thing, I get the same mouse lag/hang. It's just an annoyance, but if anyone knows why or how I can tweak it, I would greatly appreciate it. TIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2003 I've discovered that this stems from my nvidia card and modem sharing an IRQ probably. I'll move this to the hardware forum and pray that someone can answer my questions there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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