Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities)

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:18 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Jung-uk Kim <jkimFreeBSD.org>
> > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:07 -0400
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-x11freebsd.org
> >
> > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 12:50 pm, Joe Marcus
Clarke wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get a list of commonalities to
better focus my
> > > troubleshooting.  So far, my two machines
that are affected
> > > have the following in common:
> > >
> > > GNOME 2.22 (with hald)
> > > nVidia graphics card (though different
drivers)
> > > PS/2 mouse
> > > dual core
> > > ULE scheduler
> > >
> > > My one machine that is not affected differs
from this in that
> > > it has an Intel graphics card, USB mouse, and
is not dual core
> > > (but HTT).
> > >
> > > It looks like Coleman has a PS/2 mouse as
well.  It's starting
> > > to look like the mouse technology might have
something to do
> > > with this.  Anyone seeing this problem with a
USB mouse?
> >
> > I think I know why.  Build xorg-server without HAL
support option
> > and the attached patch.  With HAL support
(default) and hald
> > running, xorg-server auto-detects individual ports
with
> > input.mouse capability even without configuration
lines in
> > xorg.conf.  If moused is enabled and USB mouse is
used, /dev/ums0
> > is directly used because there is a problem in MD
code (see
> > attached patch).  If moused is enabled and PS/2
mouse is used,
> > you end up with two input devices
> > via /dev/sysmouse and /dev/psm0.  I couldn't find
a cleaner way
> > to fix this problem, though. :-(
> >
> > Jung-uk Kim
>
> So this explains the problem, but it still means that,
if it is not
> fixed, I can't run hald...and I want to run hald. I'm
trying to
> think of a way around it, but it's not obvious. Any
answer is
> probably not going to be clean as people might like,
either.

moused + hald + xorg-server runs just fine if you build
xorg-server 
without HAL support.  I am using it on two machines now.

Jung-uk Kim
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Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities)

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