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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:14:28 -0400
From:      Donald Allen <donaldcallen@gmail.com>
To:        Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>
Cc:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usb mouse issue
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On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info> wrote:
>
>> >> Donald Allen <donaldcallen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sunday 26 September 2010 13:51:14 Donald Allen wrote:
>> >> > I am running 8.1 RELEASE on a Thinkpad X61. I have a wired Microsoft
>> usb
>> >> > mouse plugged into it. I have hal and dbus running, and when I start
>> X,
>> >> > everything is fine. However, if I shut down the X server and restart
>> it
>> >> > (via startx), the mouse no longer works, but the laptop's trackpoint
>> >> > device does work. If I unplug and re-plug the mouse, it now works.
>> Again,
>> >> > as with my report on the usb disks, neither Linux nor OpenBSD exhibit
>> >> this
>> >> > behavior on this hardware.
>>
>>
>> I am quite happy with X server compiled WITHOUT_HAL=true. While I can't
>> hotplug my USB mouse (I am using a Sony Vaio laptop with internal
>> touchpad) the good thing is that once I plug it in before X server
>> starts I can freely unplug and re-plug it again as necessary.
>>
>> Can you try that to figure out wheter it's really a HAL issue
>> as suggested by HPS?
>>
>
> I will, but it won't be for a week or so.
>

I'm sorry, but I won't be doing this. I've again (third try in two years)
just run into too many problems with FreeBSD and have reinstalled Slackware.

Thanks for trying to help --

/Don

>
> /Don
>
>>
>> //Marcin
>>
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