Hugo Silva wrote:
jekillen wrote:
On May 19, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Hugo Silva wrote:
Hi list,
I've been using FreeBSD on the desktop for several years now without
any major problems. However, as of lately, I've been running into a
very annoying problem. I'll try to explain:
I play some OpenGL games on FreeBSD and have always played them
without trouble. However, now I can't play my game of election
(Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory) for more than 20 or 30 minutes. The
same thing is happening over and over (and this is the weird part):
The game will stop responding to most keys, and the ones that do
respond, output rubbish characters. The mouse dies. I can
CTRL-ALT-F1, login, and kill the game - the keyboard works on the
console!
Then I get back to KDE (CTRL-ALT-F2). The keyboard is useless at
this point, as typing something will result in something else. The
mouse moves, but I can't maximise windows (seems to ignore double
click) and stuff. CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and logging in again solves the
problem.
Now, the only thing that I've changed in the last month was a new
piece of hardware - a Logitech G5 mouse (connected via USB). After
giving it some thought, this problem started a few days after I
purchased the mouse. I can't see how this could be related to what
is happening with me, but it's the only thing I remind changing.
I was running 6.0-RELEASE-p5, and have upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE and
xorg-6.9.0, kde-3.5.1, in the hopes that it would probably fix this.
Unfortunately, the situation remains.
Has anyone experienced a similar problem at all ? I didn't even try
google as I have no idea of what I'm after..
Sounds like some kind of buffer overrun problem, some memory
allocation problem in the driver(?)
JK
I thought about something like this too, but what I can't explain is
why it only started happening when I got the new mouse (and most
likely after the "usb0: host controller process error" error, altough
I can't say for sure - and if this was the cause, howcome it persists
across reboots? I never got the error anymore (ok.. maybe 1 time).).
There isn't a special driver for this mouse, and the previous one was
also detected as ums0 (a Logitech MX 700). I am 100% sure that I
didn't touch any configuration at all, anywhere, when this started to
happen.
Thoughts, ideas, maybe someone who's been through the same, altough I
find it highly unlikely ?
Some random info:
nvidia0: <GeForce 7800 GT> port 0xe800-0xe87f mem
0xcf000000-0xcfffffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xce000000-0xceffffff
irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
ums0: Logitech USB Gaming Mouse, rev 2.00/46.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
uhid0: Logitech USB Gaming Mouse, rev 2.00/46.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
--> I cannot remember exactly if this problem only occured after this:
usb0: host controller process error
(happened a few weeks ago for the first time)
^^ My mouse died during a gaming session, and after some
investigation, I found that error message. Restarting the computer
was the only way I found to get USB support functional again. I'm
not sure, but it could have started happening ONLY after I
experienced this error for the first time.
That's all, I guess. Let me know if you have some clues..
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Hi list,
I've conducted a few more tests today, and this problem is also
happening to me on other OpenGL games. I've only managed to cause the
issue described above while playing 3D games (altough it's probably
because I move the mouse a lot while gaming).
I've ruled out any bug in Enemy Territory causing this (a new server
patch was issued some weeks ago), as I've successfully encountered the
problem on other games too.
Altough I can't say for sure yet, this doesn't *seem* to happen if I
lower my mouse DPI to 800 (I use 2000). Since the keyboard starts
outputting rubbish (probably a overflow somewhere, as someone
suggested), coupled with the fact that this doesn't seem to happen @ 800
DPIs, it probably points to a problem on the usb mouse driver, while
handling a large amount of data ?
My next test is running the game off an xterm (without KDE loaded), to
rule out any possible interference. More news soon..
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