Mouse becomes very erratic

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Optimized Amiga emulator for Linux/macOS

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Mouse becomes very erratic #624

Closed quantum8 closed 2 years ago

quantum8 commented 4 years ago

I'm using 3.1.3 that's installed with Pimiga 1.2 release and it works great for the most part.

But if I leave it on overnight, either idle, or copying files across, in the morning the cursor on the amiga side becomes unusable. The slightest touch sends the cursor all over the place.

I've tried the following steps to eliminate some basics:

disconnecting the USB mouse and reconnecting it. Used the same port, as well as different ones.
changing the mouse setting to "none", and then back to "mouse"
resetting the amiga

The mouse works fine in the configuration interface at all times.

None of the items above made the mouse on the amiga side return to normal. I have to quit and restart amiberry completely.

solskogen commented 4 years ago

The same happens in WinUAE. I've seen it a couple it times.

midwan commented 4 years ago

Strange, that's the first time I've heard about such behavior. I'll run a test and leave both WinUAE and Amiberry running overnight, to see if I can recreate this problem.

midwan commented 4 years ago

I haven't been able to recreate this so far, and I've tried:

Leaving Amiberry running overnight with a Workbench 3.1.4.1 installation
Leaving WinUAE running overnight with an AmigaOS3.9 installation
Leaving WinUAE running overnight with AmiKit copying a huge number of files over the network.

All my emulator tests worked normally when I returned to them.

quantum8 commented 4 years ago

Interesting. Must be something that the pimiga build uses and amikit does not that causes incompatibilities after a while.

midwan commented 4 years ago

I've seen this happen in WinUAE at least once now, so it looks like an upstream bug there.

quantum8 commented 4 years ago

You're right @midwan , I just had this happen on my vanilla 3.1.4 installation (no RTG) on FS-UAE on my Mac.

crale commented 4 years ago

Hi, I ma also having a laggy/sluggish cursor too. One attempt was to try....in /boot/cmdline.txt add usbhid.mousepoll=0 This did not help at all.

I also have on another SD card an installation of Amibian. It, however, does not have this problem. I prefer the Pimiga for obvious reasons, but I though that I would add this information in case it might be of some help.

midwan commented 2 years ago

Looks like WinUAE might have patched this, so I've merged those changes in Amiberry as well. Please test with the latest (both master and dev branches include this fix now) and report back if you can recreate this? Otherwise, we'll consider it "fixed" for now...