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

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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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parry_pb

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Oct 30, 2007 7:13 AM in response to joshuaaf

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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joshuaaf Author

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Oct 31, 2007 5:13 AM in response to parry_pb

Thanks for the feedback, here's the sudo log -- anything jump out at you?

viceNotResponding error - retrying: 1.
11D beacon causing regdomain change to CC 840
en1: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.
en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 149 153 157 161 165
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98osx_dnet - recovering from missed interrupt
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98osx_dnet - recovering from missed interrupt
hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 4294967296, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 4
hibernate allocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
0 [Time 1193800456] [Message System SafeSleep
hibernate page_listsetall start
hibernate page_listsetall time: 261 ms
pages 170151, wire 106057, act 29576, inact 10, zf 0, throt 1585, could discard act 26974 inact 4855 purgeable 1094
hibernate page_listsetall found pageCount 137228
IOHibernatePollerOpen, ml get_interruptsenabled 0
IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
writing 135826 pages
image1Size 314674688
all time: 9310 ms, comp time: 2718 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
image 372206592, uncompressed 556343296 (135826), compressed 366234688 (65%), sum1 b2faf15b, sum2 2c3719ac
hibernate writeimage done(0)
sleep
System Wake
11D beacon causing regdomain change to CC 840
en1: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.
en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 149 153 157 161 165
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98osx_dnet - recovering from missed interrupt
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98osx_dnet - recovering from missed interrupt
hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 4294967296, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 4
hibernate allocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
11D beacon causing regdomain change to CC 840
en1: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.
en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 149 153 157 161 165
0 [Time 1193803042] [Message System SafeSleep
hibernate page_listsetall start
hibernate page_listsetall time: 255 ms
pages 183266, wire 111527, act 35217, inact 7, zf 0, throt 1563, could discard act 27735 inact 6102 purgeable 1115
hibernate page_listsetall found pageCount 148314
IOHibernatePollerOpen, ml get_interruptsenabled 0
IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
writing 146912 pages
image1Size 335071744
all time: 10117 ms, comp time: 2915 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
image 403377664, uncompressed 601751552 (146912), compressed 397306616 (66%), sum1 344abc65, sum2 3fedf993
hibernate writeimage done(0)
sleep
System Wake
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98osx_dnet - recovering from missed interrupt
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98osx_dnet - recovering from missed interrupt
hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 4294967296, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 4
hibernate allocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
11D beacon causing regdomain change to CC 840
en1: 802.11d country code set to 'US'.
en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 149 153 157 161 165
0 [Time 1193817090] [Message System SafeSleep
hibernate page_listsetall start
hibernate page_listsetall time: 251 ms
pages 188460, wire 118801, act 32393, inact 8, zf 0, throt 1558, could discard act 27806 inact 6724 purgeable 1170
hibernate page_listsetall found pageCount 152760
IOHibernatePollerOpen, ml get_interruptsenabled 0
IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
writing 151358 pages
image1Size 353577472
all time: 10429 ms, comp time: 2984 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
image 418398720, uncompressed 619962368 (151358), compressed 412296284 (66%), sum1 60848e81, sum2 5dadaf0
hibernate writeimage done(0)
sleep
System Wake
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98osx_dnet - recovering from missed interrupt
AppleYukon2: 00000000,00000000 sk98osx_dnet - recovering from missed interrupt

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parry_pb

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Oct 31, 2007 10:43 AM in response to joshuaaf

Did this problem start after upgrading to Leopard from Tiger or your machine had a clean (as in erase and install) Leopard install?

In my case I had "ServiceNotResponding" error like you. I had done an upgrade install of Leopard.

Yesterday I wiped it clean and re-installed Leopard from scratch - the NotResponding errors are not there and mouse works fine after sleep/wake cycles. So most likely in my case it was a bad upgrade.

Hope this helps.

Message was edited by: parry_pb

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lukey

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Nov 4, 2007 3:17 AM in response to joshuaaf

i get the same thing on a 2.2 mbp with a fresh install

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gcvt

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Nov 4, 2007 3:27 AM in response to joshuaaf

I'm having this same issue on my 15" 2.2Ghz after having done the Upgrade install of Leopard. Very annoying! This never happens on my girlfriend's white MacBook which she did the upgrade installation on as well.

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Answer 6

Nov 4, 2007 6:00 AM in response to joshuaaf

I get the same problem with my MBP 17".
It is a real pain rebooting after sleep all the time.
I am on Leopard and did an upgrade, not a clean install.

I hope Apple release an update soon as this is just one of a few niggles with Leopard that I am experiencing.

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BRUCED!

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Nov 4, 2007 6:10 AM in response to joshuaaf

Same issue occurs on my MacBook Pro after doing a archive and install from Tiger to Leopard.

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DaLurker

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Nov 6, 2007 5:24 PM in response to joshuaaf

I'm experiencing the exact same problem. Did an upgrade from 10.4.10 -> 10.5.0 on the day Leopard came out.

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Answer 9

Nov 12, 2007 1:18 AM in response to DaLurker

Same issue here. MacBook Pro 15" 2.2Ghz, 2GB RAM.

Seems to be related to the airport, as when I disable the airport, the pointer goes into hyperspeed mode, then freezing every now and then. enable the airport again, and it goes back to a choppy, jumpy, erratic mouse/trackpad. The finder also seems to be pre-occupied/slow, although there is no increase in cpu use. Force quitting and restarting the finder also does not resolve the issue (and takes quite a while).

I've also tried turning off every feature on the trackpad, and still have the same issue. Seems to occur after extended sleep (12 hours plus), or if put to sleep more than 3-4 times. I haven't been able to separate these two cases.

The only fix has been to reboot the laptop, although it also takes quite a while to shutdown. Logging out and back in wasn't enough to resolve the issue.

Things of note on the box, parallels, firefox, thunderbird, adium, office 2004, menumeters, using spaces.

Anyone found a resolution ? or able to narrow down the trigger or fault ?

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Answer 10

Nov 13, 2007 5:56 PM in response to Mike Wazowski

hello all,

Im having the exactly same issue with my mbp 15 inch. a sleep cycle will make the trackpad extremely erratic and a restart is the only option. extremely annoying, any clues?

Also, force quit of finder does nothing.

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latompa

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Nov 13, 2007 7:40 PM in response to joshuaaf

I have the same issue.
Apps and keyboard become unresponsive too.
fresh install of Leopard on a MBP 2.2

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Answer 12

mrbrot

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Nov 14, 2007 12:43 AM in response to latompa

Hi all,

same here. I did the upgrade Tiger -> Leopard. Since then my MBP doesn't always wake up from sleep-mode (blank screen) or I get the laggy mouse&expose animations... very frustrating.

This is my first Mac, I bought it because of it's famous reliability, I was sick of this other OS; now before I got aware of this problem I was doing some work on my MBP which I unfortunately did not save before closing the lid - now everything's lost, as the MBP did not resume after opening the lid again...

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Answer 13

Nov 15, 2007 12:24 PM in response to joshuaaf

Ditto. Jumpy pointer - seems to happen after machine has slept and woken up several times. Goes away after reboot. Very annoying.

Apple?

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Ray Allen

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Nov 15, 2007 3:54 PM in response to joshuaaf

Count me in, two day old 17" 2.4

Erased drive and fresh install with NO migration data, still have the problem after 10.5.1

Only fix is to restart for me 😟

The bug report link at the top of this thread does not work for me,

Going to try PRAM now and see if that helps.

R

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Answer 15

Nov 15, 2007 6:01 PM in response to joshuaaf

Adding to the list of affected MBPs.

I don't have much to add for troubleshooting, only that I believe this did appear with Leopard. Mine was an upgrade install.

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