Frequent mouse "pausing" in FC2

[Madison Kelly]

Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:46:01AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>  I've installed FC2 on a test machine I have and it has a really wierd 
>>problem. I have a USB mouse (Logitech optical wheel mouse; retail). My 
>>system also has an add-in 3pt USB2 card and 2 on-board USB1.1 ports. No 
>>matter how I connect the mouse (via a USB->PS/2 adapter, to the USB1.1 
>>port or to the USB2 post) the mouse frequently stops responding.
>>
>>  It isn't a set period of time though. Sometimes it will work for up 
>>to a minute or two and sometimes it will pause several times in a 
>>minute. How long it stops for is also varying. Sometimes it just hiccups 
>>and sometimes it stops for several seconds.
> 
> 
> Whenever I've seen behaviour of this sort, it's been due to the HD having
> DMA disabled.  I've seen it happen on my Duron 1GHz in both NetBSD and
> Linux 2.6.  Use hdparm to doublecheck that DMA is enabled.
> 

Gah! I go so excited because that made sense but no, DMA is already on. 
:p Thanks though!

Madison
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