Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:14:52 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: cokane@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) Message-ID: <200803261814.54502.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47EAC353.7030802@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080326211832.DAA774500E@ptavv.es.net> <200803261735.59378.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <47EAC353.7030802@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:42 pm, Coleman Kane wrote: > Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:18 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>> 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. > > > > moused + hald + xorg-server runs just fine if you build > > xorg-server without HAL support. I am using it on two machines > > now. :-) > > > > Jung-uk Kim > > What do you lose by compiling X.org WITHOUT_HAL? Input hotplugging support, e.g., (dis)connecting USB keyboard and mouse reconfigures server automatically, I think. Jung-uk Kim
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