Random cursor freeze on Ubuntu 19.10

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Happy Sunday all. Need help regarding Ubuntu 19.10.
Ok so, I noticed that whenever I am copying pasting files, or opening programs, games, the cursor freezes randomly. I do not encounter this doing similar operations on Ubuntu 18.04.3.

I posted video on Telegram group.

  • Distribution Ubuntu 19.10
  • Kernel information : 5.3.0-19-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 18 09:04:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  • When did the issue start happening? Since installing Ubuntu 19.10
  • What steps do you take that cause the problem? Copy/Pasting files, opening games, programs, moving files etc.
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  • What hardware?
  • Mostly happening during disk I/O from what i understand?

EDIT:

Could be the driver updated between releases, and now have bugs introduced.

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Acer swift 3. All intel.

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Are you using Wayland by any chance?

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22 models of swift 3, does however narrow it down a little bit. Ubuntu 18.04.3 ships with Linux Kernel 5.0, and 19.10 ships with 5.3.

From what I can find, the Swift 3 ships with a Synaptics touchpad, and should be well supported.

Can you run this for me to see if the driver is loaded correctly, and post the output of the command?

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i synaptics
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Swift-SF314-56
avi@avi-Swift-SF314-56:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i synaptics
cat: /var/log/Xorg.0.log: No such file or directory
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Then you are using wayland, and this seems to be a wayland issue as per this bug Bug 745032 – Mouse Tracking 'Laggy' on Wayland, and mouse movements cause frame drops in other OpenGL applications

Gnome have a lot of lag issues recently on wayland, and you can follow bugs on the issue from here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=wayland%20mouse%20lag

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That’s why I asked about Wayland as I’ve heard about that issue. FWIW, I am using X and have none of those issues.

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