periodic mouse freezes/jumps on Hoary

Wed Mar 23 17:33:11 UTC 2005

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 14:20 -0500, David Feldman wrote:
> I've just installed Hoary on a Dell Inspiron 4000 (pentium 3 610MHz 
> laptop), and I'm excited to see a lot of terrific additions since 
> Warty. One problem, though: The mouse cursors will periodically and 
> temporarily freeze when I'm moving it around, just for a moment, and 
> then resume its course. It happens frequently enough to be a serious 
> issue, and happens whether I'm using the built-in touchpad or a USB 
> external mouse.

I saw the same thing on an HP nc6000. Went away when I switched to the
synaptics driver for Xorg (package xorg-driver-synaptics)