Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:22:17 -0400 (CLT) From: "Daniel Molina Wegener" <dmw@unete.cl> To: "Paul Fraser" <pfraser@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /dev/psm0 and Xorg woes Message-ID: <55135.64.117.137.69.1180736537.squirrel@webmail.ifxnw.cl> In-Reply-To: <f82eafcc0706011513u6bd112d6ic759b1a0dfc54230@mail.gmail.com> References: <f82eafcc0706011513u6bd112d6ic759b1a0dfc54230@mail.gmail.com>
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El Vie, 1 de Junio de 2007, 18:13, Paul Fraser escribió: > Hi all, Hello, > > I've got an interesting problem which only just appeared today on my > 6-STABLE laptop. Upon boot, gdm fails to load with the following > error: > > [SNIP] > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > I do have hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 defined in /boot/loader.conf, and > the kernel does identify it as a touchpad on boot: > > psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 > psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > psm0: model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0 > > Trying to do cat /dev/psm0 gives me the following error: > cat: /dev/psm0: Resource temporarily unavailable > > To me (though I'd hardly say I'm qualified to say for sure) this seems > to be the cause of the problem. I'm not running moused on this system, > so there shouldn't be anything locking the device. > > Does anybody have any suggestions? It's quite frustrating, suddenly > being unable to use Xorg on my notebook when it was working perfectly > well just yesterday. But darned if I can think of what changes I > made... Try to check if moused is running. If is running, check if /dev/sysmouse is present. If moused is running, set mouse device in Xorg to /dev/sysmouse. Also, moused is a better option on Xorg. > > FWIW, the touchpad does work fine under Windows. > > -- > Regards, > > Paul Fraser > http://furyc0de.net/ > [SNIP] Regards, -- .O. | Daniel Molina Wegener | C/C++ Developer ..O | dmw [at] unete [dot] cl | FOSS Coding Adict OOO | BSD & Linux User | Standards Rocks!
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