Comment 19 for bug 41301

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John Jason Jordan (johnxj) wrote : Re: Mouse clicks stop working sporadically

Rob Frohne said:

I>t looks like those kernel arguments may make it so my laptop won't
>sleep, and maybe some other side effects. Is that true?

I don't know. I had the problem only on a brand new desktop computer I built for myself over spring break. I tried (all amd64 versions) CentOS, Mepis, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Fedora 7 test2, Ubuntu Feisty Beta, and Debian Etch (final). Every single one of them displayed the same problem. Sometimes I could fix it by holding the cursor over a window and doing Alt-Tab, sometimes I had to log off and back in again. Eventually I discovered the "noapic pci=off" command and that solved it for all of them. The computer is currently running Ubuntu Feisty final and I still had to go in and add the command.

The computer has an Abit NF-M2S motherboard that has onboard nVidia chipset for everything except the gigabit ethernet which is Realtek. The video is nVidia GeForce 6100 and the rest is nforce 405. But who know which part is the culprit? All I can say is try it on your laptop and see what happens.