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Date:      Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:18:15 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de>
Subject:   Re: xorg loops
Message-ID:  <1238969895.1829.14.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904051535280.98564@thor.farley.org>
References:  <49D8D03B.8090302@arcor.de> <1238956838.1829.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904051535280.98564@thor.farley.org>

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On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 15:39 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
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> > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:37 +0200, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> Using 8 current from time to time I have an xorg problem.
> >>
> >> Getting millions of those messages
> >>
> >> (II) Mouse autoprobe: Changing protocol to ExplorerPS/2
> >> (II) Mouse autoprobe: Changing protocol to ImPS/2
> >>
> >> the system is unusable. No response from keyboard or mouse any more.
> >>
> >> Any idea, what I can do to prevent this from happining?
> >
> > Use moused... I've seen this with some of my mice lately... I don't=20
> > know the input driver stuff well enough to really chase it down=20
> > without wasting a lot of time that is better spent on other things.=20
> > My experience was that it either happened right after X startup, or it=20
> > would be fine.  I think maybe the bug is in the psm driver in the=20
> > kernel, but I'm not certain.
>=20
> For another point of interest, after the xserver (and xf86-input-mouse)=20
> updates to 1.6, my laptop's GlidePointPS/2 is no longer detected as=20
> such.  It uses vanilla PS/2 for it.  I do not use hal nor moused.  This=20
> is with RELENG_7, so it is not just CURRENT with the problem.

There were no changes to the mouse driver.  Only difference is that the
os-support routines now only live in the mouse driver.  So that is where
to go looking for trouble.

robert.

> Sean
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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD

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