fglrx driver- laggy mouse and lost/repeated keypresses

[turboi]

Hello all. I have a problem with xorg on my laptop while using the fglrx or radeon driver. It happens using the i586 or x86_64 livecds or installed on hard drive using the accelerated drivers. This problem does not occur when using the install DVD, or booting into xorg on my installed Mageia partition with the vesa driver.

While typing or moving the mouse, the input is laggy and sluggish, as if the computer has a pentium or k5 rather than a phenom 2.2GHz. I have tried several usb mice. Some keypresses are lost as I type quickly, and some are repeated without even holding down the key. This backup system I am writing this post on right now with a C7 feels more responsive in comparison. The built-in touchpad on the laptop works ok; I think it is ps/2. I can attach log files to help figure out what is going on, but I haven't been able to find anything wrong in log files, dmesg, or by monitoring task manager/top.

This little bug with the mouse has made every distro released from 2011 onwards unusable with this laptop. Any help in solving or working around this bug will be greatly appreciated...

[doktor5000]

How did you confirm whether you were actually using the fglrx/radeon driver? And please show the output of

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dmesg | grep -e uhci -e ohci -e xhci

[turboi]

I can install the system to my hard drive and reboot into X using the vesa driver and responsiveness is fine. If I use drakconf and change the driver to one of the automatically chosen(proprietary) ones, then use the "test" option, X works in the test session, with the before mentioned lagginess and then the original X session with the vesa driver also becomes unusable. Also, X on the instal DVD works fine. I tried the newest testing version of Suse and it works OK. Xorg 1.6.5 on my PCLinuOS 2010 works great, then any distro from last year to now does this, up to openSUSE testing with xorg 1.11 something works OK...

This laptop is connected to a KVM switch but the probem also happens without it.

Here is a snippet from my xorg log:

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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep driver
[   132.469]    X.Org XInput driver : 13.0
[   132.655] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/v4l_drv.so
[   133.724] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
[   134.863] (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux
[   135.536] (II) AMD Video driver is running on a device belonging to a group targeted for this release
[   135.536] (II) AMD Video driver is signed
[   135.536] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
[   136.748] (II) fglrx(0): swlDriScreenInit for fglrx driver
[   136.748] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:5:0"
[   136.748] (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver.
[   136.771] (II) fglrx(0): Initialized in-driver Xinerama extension
[   138.063] (II) fglrx(0): Disabling in-server RandR and enabling in-driver RandR 1.2.
[   142.627] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized OpenGL driver(II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0
[   148.834]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 13.0
[   148.834] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[   148.903] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[   148.903] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   148.904] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Sleep Button'
[   148.904] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'KVM A6 '
[   148.905] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'KVM A6 '
[   148.906] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   148.906] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'HP Mouse'
[   148.907] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   148.907] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   148.907] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   148.907] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M'
[   148.908] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[   148.979]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 13.0
[   148.979] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[   149.052] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Dell WMI hotkeys'
[   190.016] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Dell WMI hotkeys'
[   190.018] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   190.043] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[   190.106] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   190.106] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   190.123] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[   190.141] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[   190.186] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'HP Mouse'
[   190.202] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M'
[   190.204] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   190.204] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[   190.218] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'KVM A6 '
[   190.234] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Sleep Button'
[   190.250] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'KVM A6 '
[   190.266] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[   265.998] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'HP Mouse'
[   266.000] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.


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[live@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep -e uhci -e ohci -e xhci
[    4.637433] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[    4.638132] ohci_hcd 0000:00:12.0: OHCI Host Controller
[    4.638175] ohci_hcd 0000:00:12.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    4.638258] ohci_hcd 0000:00:12.0: irq 18, io mem 0xff709000
[    4.641934] Warning! ehci_hcd should always be loaded before uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd, not after
[    4.693180] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 ohci_hcd
[    4.693567] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
[    4.693578] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[    4.693598] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 18, io mem 0xff707000
[    4.748119] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 ohci_hcd
[    4.748484] ohci_hcd 0000:00:16.0: OHCI Host Controller
[    4.748494] ohci_hcd 0000:00:16.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[    4.748515] ohci_hcd 0000:00:16.0: irq 18, io mem 0xff705000
[    4.803118] usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 ohci_hcd
[    5.598103] usb 1-4: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci_hcd
[    6.037182] usb 1-4.1: new low-speed USB device number 3 using ohci_hcd
[    6.200178] usb 1-4.2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ohci_hcd
[    6.371175] usb 1-4.3: new low-speed USB device number 5 using ohci_hcd
[  258.190166] usb 1-4.2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using ohci_hcd
[  263.290233] usb 1-4.3: new low-speed USB device number 7 using ohci_hcd


Hopefully this can be figured out...

[doktor5000]

Well, somebody recently told me that you have to set some special setting in xorg.conf for KVM switches, but i don't know details

[turboi]

This happens with or without the kvm. Besides, PCLinuxOS 2010 works perfectly, its just xorg newer than version1.7 or so...