FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Built-in PS/2 mousepad problems

["Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 4, 2007 7:07 AM, Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki) <koki@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yesterday I also noticed that if I boot Haiku with the USB mouse plugged
> in, the mousepad also works OK.
>
> Don't if it is related or not, but I also noticed that sound now breaks
> intermittently while the mouse pointer is being moved; this did not
> happen before on this very same hardware. Maybe I should file a bug for
> this too.

I know this is a different issue, but I figured while everyone is
talking about mouse issues, I should probably mention that I have a
strange problem where every other boot into Haiku my mouse barely
works properly. The cursor is really slow and the mouse clicks are
mostly ignored (I have to click multiple times and jiggle the mouse
around sometimes). It appears that for some reason most of the
messages are being filtered out or something.

Now, this is a Logitech PS/2 mouse attached to a cheap IOGear KVM
switch - I have tested without the KVM switch and it seems to work
properly on every boot. I've tested a couple different logitech mice
and they experience the same problem through my KVM.

The strange part is that a reboot into Haiku again usually makes the
problem go away, but it seems to comes back again every other
reboot...

This problem plagued me years ago when I started testing Haiku on real
hardware, and I suppose I should have filed a bug report at that time,
but I mostly stopped using that setup and forgot about it (until today
when I hooked it up to the same KVM again and ran into it). Just to
clarify, my issue is not a new one, so it is probably not related to
anything done in a recent revision.