thank you Declan and Simon.  I recompiled my kernel WITH the proper chipset 
support and i dont have the mouse problem anymore.


From: Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Oct 26 05:12:53 CDT 2005
To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: console lag and mouse problems

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 06:15 +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> Unless your cpu is very hard worked nothing like that should ever
> happen. I would have to time it fairly carefully to land a copy 'n'
> paste on firefox opening. It sounds like
> 
> 1. You have a wrong/borderline mouse protocol.
> 2. You may have compile/configuration errors in your setup
> 3. You probably have slow disk access, because the correct chipset is
> not compiled in to your kernel. Hdparm -tT /dev/hda would check this.
> 4. You may have a memory fault (Try www.memtest86.com)
> 5. If none of the above apply, you need to post a lot of information. I
> don't know if you have a mac, a laptop, usb, ps2 or serial mouse.

If it's triggered by load on the system, I'd pick the third suggestion.
Last time I upgraded my home machine, I had issues along those lines due
to the lack of chipset support - without DMA, anything that did disk
access impacted everything else. Not fun at all.

Simon.


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