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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Bug#13588: some notices
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-02-01 12:14:00
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Thomas Emmel wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> after 3 months of observation of this problem I will give some
> notices in hopes it helps to find the problem.
> Now I am running Kde2.0.1 which doesn't change anything with the
> problem.
> My observation is that if I start my laptop without the external mouse
> and plug it in after I have done some work the desktop will freeze
> sooner.
> If I start with the mouse plugged in this problem
> appears much later or doesn't appear...
> I use XFree86 3.3.6, maybe there is any problem related to the X-Server
> but the problem appears only with kde2.
> I can try to update to Xfree86 4.0.x but I think it will be easier to
> find a way to set some debug-info into the code.
> It is indeed a problem of KDE2 with laptops, maybe with the way of
> interpreting
> input from /dev/psaux and in my oppinion the bug should be treated as
> a GRAVE BUG !!!
> I will give any help I can to find a solution but I need some assistance
> due
> to the fact that I cannot find any hint in all logfiles or somewhere.
> 
Hi!

It seems only to affect laptops, so I would blame some driver. There isn't
much KDE does to the mouse though. You may want to remove libkcmenergy
which _may_ cause this, then there is libkcminput which sets some mouse
settings. But none of this can create the bug as you report it, it has
to be the X server running wild. KDE just has no control over the mouse
pointer other than using the X server. And as it only affects specific
laptops, it's very hard to believe it's KDE's fault. But as I said, try
to get down to the module that causes your problem in removing the
kcminit call from the startkde.

Greetings, Stephan

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