User interface stutters / laggy when mouse NOT moving
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linux (Ubuntu) |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
I am not certain this is an Xorg problem, but some of the time (~10-20%?) my system stutters if I am not moving the mouse. Music I'm playing will skip badly and CPU usage will stay elevated. Text I type in terminals is slow to appear. If I wave my mouse around the screen like a madman, the stuttering goes away. I have noticed sometimes it even occurs at the login screen, and seems to prevent my login from working properly.
This has happened to several people:
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I have tried (and am currently running) the X-Updates PPA, but that did not help. This bug occurred whether I used the standard Maverick release version of X, the X-Updates X, Nouveau as my video driver, or the proprietary NVIDIA driver as my video driver. This was not an issue for me under Lucid, so it is a regression.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 260.19.06 Mon Sep 13 04:29:19 PDT 2010
GCC version: gcc version 4.4.5 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5)
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 15 11:55:33 2010
MachineType: FOXCONN RENAISSANCE Series
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 03/24/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080015
dmi.board.name: RENAISSANCE Series
dmi.board.vendor: FOXCONN
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: FOXCONN
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: RENAISSANCE Series
dmi.sys.vendor: FOXCONN
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: maverick
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic
Was happening to me too.
For me it's not %10-20 of the time, it's more like after about an hour of normal use then for a period of 5 minutes then it goes away until it comes back in another hour. I was thinking it might have been the differences in processor power, but I'm on a i7 920.
The CPU usage is 'weird' when it happens. According to htop the different processors get random highish (%50-80) cpu usage but it doesn't max any of them out and no process in the list is listed as using much (other than Xorg which is around %20).
Also after it happens, when I try to playback using totem is throws up 5 error boxes about being 'disconnected' but then works fine if I quit and reopen it. I'll try and grab the actual error if it happens again. I'm thinking it might be pulse-audio or gstreamer related although maybe some media backend crashing is just a symptom of the problem.
I have since reinstalled, not sure if this fixed it or not. Seems it might have improved it somewhat though.