acpi-polling: mouse goes wild

Hi there!

Whenever I start a program that frequently polls for acpi-information (eg. the Gnome Battstat Monitor), my mouse goes wild. The cursor starts jumping and keeps dancing around until I kill the application.

I'm currently using kernel version 2.5.70 but I had the problem also in earlier versions.

Oh, my computer is a Acer Travelmate 220.

Do you need further information? Can you help me? ;)

Any help is appreciated.

Raphael Bosshard

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