From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 21:18:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A476F1065671 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=e2a29b6007fae5004504da14f8396fe47e644c69=652=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal4.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:6000:1::66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB08E8FC1C for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:18:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=e2a29b6007fae5004504da14f8396fe47e644c69=652=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal4.es.net (Postal Node 4) with ESMTP (SSL) id GYS84634; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:18:34 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id DAA774500E; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:18:32 -0700 (PDT) To: Jung-uk Kim In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:07 EDT." <200803261654.09551.jkim@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1206566312_13219P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:18:32 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080326211832.DAA774500E@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ;; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Jung-uk Kim X-To_Domain: freebsd.org X-To: Jung-uk Kim X-To_Email: jkim@FreeBSD.org X-To_Alias: jkim Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:18:37 -0000 --==_Exmh_1206566312_13219P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > From: Jung-uk Kim > 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--