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Subject: Re: Xorg strange behavior
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> wrote:
> Is there anybody noticing that Xorg, when there is no mouse event, would
> not respond to keyboard events?  Sometimes application would stall and
> moving mouse would make it resume...

I experienced the same symptoms after the recent upgrade. I found that
rebuilding x11-servers/xorg-server without HAL fixed the problem. I
think there are a couple of other ways to fix it, but AFAIK the root
of the problem is HAL not playing nicely with other components (ie,
moused).