From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 22:22:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B77316A41F for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 22:22:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmw@unete.cl) Received: from mail07.ifxnetworks.com (mail07.ifxnetworks.com [190.61.128.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8AC13C457 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 22:22:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmw@unete.cl) Received: (qmail 3579 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2007 22:22:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail.ifxnw.cl) ([190.61.128.23]) (envelope-sender ) by mail07.ifxnetworks.com (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Jun 2007 22:22:17 -0000 Received: from 64.117.137.69 (proxying for 161.131.179.197, 161.131.179.197) (SquirrelMail authenticated user dmw@unete.cl) by webmail.ifxnw.cl with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:22:17 -0400 (CLT) Message-ID: <55135.64.117.137.69.1180736537.squirrel@webmail.ifxnw.cl> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:22:17 -0400 (CLT) From: "Daniel Molina Wegener" To: "Paul Fraser" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: /dev/psm0 and Xorg woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dmw@unete.cl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:22:19 -0000 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: 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!