Freezing when using free transform and more

I'm on a 12 core Westmere PM w/20g RAM running 10.6.8. with a standard Mac scrollwheel mouse. I have a Wacom tablet attached but it hasn't been used in weeks.
In the past week, I have encountered two mouse related freezing episodes that I cannot duplicate on purpose.
The symptoms are things like Transform handles that won't respond to mouseclick/dragging but responding to numerical entry. Or Liquify opening but unresponsive to any input whatsoever other than the ability to close the panel from a mouseclick. Or converting a layer to a Smart Object….applying a filter, and finding that the filter won't respond to mouse input. It's like arbitrary mouse input freezing or something.
I called this a "half crash" because the program still remains somewhat operable (files can be closed, saved or opened, numerical entry is possible in some instances or mouse clicking works on higher level meaning or window opening/closing) but in general, a great deal of functionality is disabled. Only a relaunch of Photoshop solves the problem. I've never seen anything like this in Photoshop before. The only other thing open at the time was CS6 Illustrator.
I am writing about this because I have no idea what sets this off and was wondering if anyone else has bumped into it. If you have, you might want to mention it here, as these intermittent glitches are a pain to track down without a number of users providing clues. Normally I wouldn't post something like this….but since it is a v.1 version of CS6….I thought it worth mentioning.

I skipped CS5 and went from CS3 to CS6 - this is the standard Free Transform menu in CS6:
You're likely to get a quicker answer to your question if you post in the Photoshop users forum - http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop - where there are a number of people still using older versions.
Good luck,
Clinyon

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I am using Photoshop CS5 on the most up-to-date version of Leopard. Macbook Pro 15", early 2011 model.
I went Edit > Free Transform, about to adjust the width/height of an object on the canvas like I normally do, but I noticed that the width/height info near the top of the screen is really... Weird. Instead of saying W (width) 100% and H (height) 100% in the two boxes, W is saying however many pixels the object is, instead of the scale percentage.
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I skipped CS5 and went from CS3 to CS6 - this is the standard Free Transform menu in CS6:
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Last edited by necbot (2015-02-27 02:34:49)

necbot wrote:I should also mention that I recently upgraded so I'm running kernel 3.18.6-1-ARCH. Will the catalyst drivers work with this kernel? I did not have a problem with the old kernel, which I think was 3.16
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