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Snow Leopard mouse freezing

mackmgg

mackmgg

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Anyone else having the problem where the mouse will freeze, and you will have to restart the computer to get it to work? I have the newest build of Snow Leopard and the mouse button and trackpad stop working randomly. The keyboard continues to work, and I have to restart the computer. I have Leopard installed too, but its so slow to go back to I'm hoping someone knows what might be wrong.
 
Please file a bug at bugreport.apple.com, particularly if you have any ideas on what to do to trigger it. (I need to do this myself... perhaps I'll have time this evening)
 
It's happening to me too. It starts working again after a few minutes so you might not have to restart.
 
Plug in a mouse - starts working again

If you plug in a USB Mouse while its frozen...it starts working again. Anyone have any better solutions? Carrying a USB Mouse around is kind of annoying.
 
glasserp said:
Waiting until the OS is ready for public release.
Not using it as your main OS.

Until then you might be out of luck.
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Even with the slowdowns of not being abe to use the mouse occasionally, its STILL faster then Leopard. As to reproducing it, try leaving your finger in the same spot on the trackpad for a little while.
 
This happens to me too, but only for a few seconds.

It just randomly happens sometimes
 
Just started with 10A394, I'm hoping apple will fix it in another seed, hopefully through Software Update now that they have that working.
 
Yep

Josef19 said:
It's happening to me too. It starts working again after a few minutes so you might not have to restart.
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It's happening on my 2006 macbook with 10A394 as well. Only 1) waiting (up to a minute), 2) restarting & 3) hitting all keys on my keyboard rapidly and randomly seems to work. Waiting for 10A400... :rolleyes:
 
Thought I'd just throw my bit in..

I've been getting trackpad freezing issues for many seeds now, it's incredible frustrating, but I haven't been bothered to figure it out. Like someone said, just have both Leopard and Snow Leopard installed on separate partitions to avoid relying on SL. God I hope they fix this via Software Update :-S
 
mackmgg said:
Anyone else having the problem where the mouse will freeze, and you will have to restart the computer to get it to work? I have the newest build of Snow Leopard and the mouse button and trackpad stop working randomly. The keyboard continues to work, and I have to restart the computer. I have Leopard installed too, but its so slow to go back to I'm hoping someone knows what might be wrong.
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Hasn't happened to me, but try copying your IOUSBFamily.kext file from Leopard to an external hdd and overwrite the one in Snow Leopard, see if that works. You are a developer, most likely you know where that file is. And please file the bug report to Apple.

EDIT: If you do as I told, you'll likely have a working trackpad again, but if you have a non-unibody Mac then Snow Leopard will lose the 4 finger gesture functionality because the IOUSBFamily.kext file found in Leopard for non-unibody Macs does not have 4 finger gesture support. You can add it, though. In the other hand, if you have a unibody 4 finger support will still be there.
 
trackpad fix

I haven't seen it happen yet with 10A402 but it was happening relatively often with the previous build... the best solution I found was covering the trackpad completely with my hand which resets the pad itself (or so I was told) it fixes the issue everytime.
 
it has happened to me once or twice with 10a402.. but that's not nearly as common as before

covering the trackpad works

can someone upload the iousb kext? i don't have leopard, and i don't use 4 finger gestures. thanks
 
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