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[Solved] AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug
After some time in MacOS mouse stops to move as it should be. The cursor is being moved on a very small distance with significant delay. One time this was fixed on its own but mostly I have to spawn iterm with spotlight and reboot.
Applies only to movemet, buttons/scrolling works perfectly. Applies to al mice in system: touchpad, usb mouse, bluetooth mouse. Any ideas? Admin Edit: Thread renamed Addendum by R0GUE To summarise this for future reference; it is not a 'mouse bug' per se, but a dual core timing issue. Symptoms include: • Mouse lag - early signs are drag and drop inaccuracies, trail skipping • GUI lag - Finder window movement becomes choppy and acceleration degrades • Random restarts - caused by the 'divide by zero' error resulting in kernel panic • -10810 error - applications will not start until a restart or log out/in • increased CPU fan noise and temperatures - due to dual core synchronisation errors • general erratic behaviour - system feels sluggish, unresponsive at times Remedy (Temporary) • Boot using the 'cpus=1' kernel flag - this can be done at the beginning of each boot at the Darwin boot prompt, or permanently by editing the com.apple.boot.plist which can be found in: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ Addendum by Naquaada This error must not affect all Dual-Core systems, they can work without problems. The most Photoshop users have this issue, maybe the software installes something what an AMD Dual-Core cpu doesn't like, Adobe software needs a lot of resources and makes various changes in the operating system. |
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Why don't you try to reload the kext for the mouse. What type of mouse is this, USB or PS/2?
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as I've already said, this applies to all mice at the same time (PS/2 touchpad, USB mouse, BT mouse). I've tried to turn BT on/off (thus "restarting" BT mouse) but that didn't help.
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Slow down your memory timings I guarantee it will help
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can you please say, how *this* could be connected with memory timings? I'm running 333MHz clock (DDR2), no overclocking etc.
BTW, my BIOS doesn't allow memory underclocking. |
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What board do you have?
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farcaller, i believe you have the same problem that i and numerous others are experiencing. does your mouse also jump around a bit too? that is what happens for me (and others). i've also noticed that the GUI is actually a lot more laggy too (window animation, dock animation, etc). as of yet, there is no known cause or solution to this problem. as far as i know, it is not memory timing because my memory (as well as others i've talked to) are set to stock settings. leopard may be different, but I have to say that this was never an issue for me in tiger. what's even more annoying is no one is acknowledging this as a "real" problem, which is very frustrating because it IS a "real" problem, as it means at least one reboot every day. and, as a side note, rebooting is also very frustrating for me because i suffer from the sound volume back-to-default-level-on-reboot issue that other people are also not considering a "real" problem. well, all i can say is good luck getting help with this. if you do, let me know.
specs, once more: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium NF4 AMD 3800+ 1GB DDR2 400 evga 8800GT 512mb |
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Quote:
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what type of memory do you have?
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At the moment kingston DDR400 but I've tried it with a couple of other sticks of ram I have lying around
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