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Pointer jumpy on MPB (Leopard) after wake from sleep...

All,

My MacBook Pro's pointer is "jumpy" when the machine returns from sleep mode. Restarting the machine does clear out the issue. Has anyone else observed this behavior?

Thanks,

Josh

2.2 Ghz MBP 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Oct 30, 2007 6:09 AM

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User profile for user: parry_pb
parry_pb
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Posted on Oct 30, 2007 7:13 AM

Once you reproduce the jumpy pointer can you open Terminal.app and run this command -

sudo dmesg <PRESS ENTER>
password: <ENTER YOUR PASSWORD>

and then copy the last 50 or so lines of output and paste it here?

Reason I ask is I had similar issue and I get a particular error when that happens - just want to verify if yours is the same case. If so we can open a problem report with Apple at http://bugreport.apple.com.
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User profile for user: Rick Schwartz
Rick Schwartz
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Nov 29, 2007 8:53 PM in response to joshuaaf

I had this problem intermittently in Tiger, but after installing Leopard my SR macbook pro has been plagued by issues after sleep including a slow pointer and jumpy animations, and that was if the display even woke up, which it usually doesn't. Like everyone else here, restarting was the only way to get things working the way they are supposed to.

I've also had some issues with streaming stage6 videos crashing Safari, that I never had in Tiger, so I started to think there might be something wrong with my graphics card drivers.

After removing iStat Pro from my dashboard however, things seem to be working a whole lot better, and my computer has been waking from sleep almost instantaneously. I miss iStat, but having my computer work is just a little more important...
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User profile for user: coopergee
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Nov 29, 2007 9:08 PM in response to Rick Schwartz

Earlier I had posted that an update to 5.1 had cured this problem... I mispoke but felt little desire to repost my frustration. I wound up doing a clean erase and install of Leopard and the 5.1 update, removing the Istat widget, which I too had installed... and my additional problem of an inability to autosleep my MacBook Pro still remained. However a nifty utility I had downloaded which enforced autosleep called NMS Sleep Assist enables me to not keep trying to diagnose and fix this problem after more than a month of futility since upgrading to Leopard. Now at least I can autosleep without getting the jumpy pointer after awaking (usually from battery sleep) and the machine just feels to be running faster, smoother, cooler.

I still sense there is an airport component to all my problems, perhaps a nvidia driver component and perhaps an Isync component to the autosleep problem which requires an Apple response. But for now I'm finally happy. At least for as long as this workaround lasts.
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User profile for user: Tim Windsor1
Tim Windsor1
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Nov 30, 2007 5:11 AM in response to joshuaaf

I, too, had iStat Menus installed. It's been uninstalled now for three days, with no further cursor issues. Not long enough for rigorous scientific testing, to be sure, but it definitely is feeling like a fix.

At least until the good folks who develop iStat come up with a solution, I hope. I'd pointed out this thread to them and I heard back that they would look into it.

Any lurkers from iSlayer here with any thoughts?
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