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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:41:44 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gustau_P=E9rez_i_Querol?= <gperez@entel.upc.edu>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Plugging out Microsoft Nano Tranceiver (USB mouse) causes PS2 keyboard to cease functioning
Message-ID:  <51091508.5060906@entel.upc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <510900A1.5090208@rawbw.com>
References:  <50F48D49.1060406@rawbw.com> <510900A1.5090208@rawbw.com>

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Al 30/01/2013 12:14, En/na Yuri ha escrit:
> I found the cause of this problem.
>
> Due to the bug in Xorg it unloads the keyboard driver when it gets
> signal from hald that keyboard is disconnected, even though there is
> still another keyboard that is hooked up to kbdmux.
> Looks like Xorg code assumes that there can only be one keyboard and
> isn't aware of kbdmux.
>
> This was when hald is enabled (by default), and ServerFlags section in
> xorg.conf looked like this:
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> When I changed this section to this:
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
> EndSection
> keyboard doesn't get affected, but mouse disappears for good when
> unplugged and plugged back, since (I guess) Xorg ignores ums0 device
> errors.
>
> I filed the following PRs with Xorg:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60069
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60070
>
> Yuri
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   Take a look at uhidd. I had the same problem a few time ago and 
because of it I switched to it.

   Perhaps will do fine for your setup.

   Regards,

   Gustau


-- 
    Salut i força,

    Gustau

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