Cursor freezes in 10.10

[cov]

Hi, I'm suddenly getting mouse cursor freezes since I upgraded from Lucid.

It's not serious, just irritating; I can get cursor movement back by alt-tabbing.

Anyone having similar issues?

I'm running 32bit on an Asus Laptop, model K501J and am using the XFce window manager. My /var/log/messages reports the following:

Oct 12 09:46:23 SNECCII kernel: [10122.860511] psmouse.c: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
Oct 12 09:46:27 SNECCII kernel: [10126.679195] psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request

[Milesio]

Same story here. I had been having this problem since I upgraded to 10.04 I think, and it's still present in 10.10. I was hoping the new upgrade would fix it but... meh.
It only happens when I use a USB mouse and it's completely random. I've done all sorts of tests, combinations... to no avail. It comes and goes and I cannot make heads or tails of it.
I ended up using just the touchpad and that's it. I sort of gave up on the USB mouses.
Obviously, I won't stop using Ubuntu just 'cos of this but yeah, it's damn annoying although it also is the only thing that's not working for me.

I'm using a Dell 1530 XPS (4 gigs ram, dual 2.4 processor if memory serves me correctly, NVidia GeForce 8600 (512 mb) card, 500 Gb hdd), with Ubuntu 10.10 now.

[mr.interested]

I have the very same problem. It's happening since yesterday when I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10. (In Ubuntu 10.04 everything was OK.) The log is also the same as OP:

Oct 13 09:51:06 michael-laptop kernel: [ 3598.220761] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.
Oct 13 09:51:07 michael-laptop kernel: [ 3599.504991] psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request

[Refalm]

I have the same problem in Maverick. Everything worked great though in Lucid.

There's also a weird problem with Linux-native games like Quake Live and UrbanTerror, where the cursor does not move, but the mouse buttons work fine.
Gaming in Wine does work ironically.

[mr.interested]

the cursor does not move, but the mouse buttons work fine.

On my Ubuntu 10.10 both cursor and mouse buttons don't work. They start working after several seconds, or after I press and hold Esc button for a second. The cursor freezes randomly, but on average once a minute.

I'm a bit disappointed with the new version, as this is the second problem I have with it (the other is about Media Player: http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/sh....php?p=9959415).

[cov]

Just to update the original post, I stated that Alt-Tabbing unfreezes the mouse cursor, however, just pressing the Alt key is sufficient.

Looks like a bug, no?

How do I report it?

[alex.white]

I have the similar problem with mouse cursor freezings... Everything was OK on my old workstation. But after i bought a new one and install 10.04 at first and then 10.10 (both 64bit) cursor begins to freeze randomly for a second or few and then returns back to normal work. It happens with USB wireless mouses (i've tried two different mouses). Frequently it happens during active disk IO operations or when i use Firefox.

PS: AMD Phenom II 965, MSI 890GXM-G65 (with on-board ATI Radeon HD 4290), SATA HDD, fglrx driver.

[Martyn Collins, Esq.]

My mouse in thinkpad T42 has been persistently freezing after upgrade to Maverick. Just sayin.

[encho]

It happens here as well, Dell Latitude D630, Maverick 64bit.

[maen]

My cursor freezes, and downloads stall. Pressing Alt gets it going again. Would love a solution

Acer Aspire 5735Z on Maverick, dist. upgraded from lucid and others