branden, herbert: hi. regarding this issue: i can make things more tolerable by, after running startx, doing a ps -ax, looking for /usr/bin/X, and issuing a renice -20 pid_of_X.
also i don't know if you're aware of this but if i renice 10 pid_of_X the mouse does not respond AT ALL (but the keyboard does). renice 0 pid_of_X and the mouse is okay. 10 and below, it stops working. l. p.s. i apologise for not yet having recompiled the ps2 input kernel module with the debug output.
