Comment 26 for bug 41301
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| John Jason Jordan (johnxj) wrote Re: Mouse clicks stop working sporadically | #26 |
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Re my comment of April 23:
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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.
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The problem disappeared for me, and without needing the "noapic pci=off" boot option. What made it disappear was returning the Abit NF-M2S motherboard and replacing it with an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard. The Asus cost me about $12 more, but it has four SATA connectors, nVidia nforce 430, nVidia GeForce 6150, an eSATA connector, built-in firewire, and the gigabit ethernet is also nVidia. The added features are well worth the extra price, and it also solved all the problems I had been having with the SATA controller on the Abit board. Conclusions: 1) Abit is evil and, 2) if you have the option to swap motherboards, it's probably worth the time and effort to do so, compared to the effort you're spending on dealing with this bug.