Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:18:32 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) Message-ID: <20080326211832.DAA774500E@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:07 EDT." <200803261654.09551.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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--==_Exmh_1206566312_13219P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:07 -0400 > Sender: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.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. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1206566312_13219P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFH6r2okn3rs5h7N1ERAg3+AJsHL4oOgJE69mq/dAhE3OnmzudidwCfUatM wNX0DHGW+OJj/CrQkGpCkgI= =2i/4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1206566312_13219P--
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