From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 16:56:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A062F1065671; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:56:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFAE8FC18; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:56:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m2RGi0m21770; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:44:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.221.85] (dhcp-64-102-221-85.cisco.com [64.102.221.85]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m2RGihu14438; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:44:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <47EBCED1.8060308@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:44:01 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cokane@freebsd.org References: <47EA7ED2.8030406@freebsd.org> <200803261654.09551.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <1206597105.80352.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <47EB9213.7050509@FreeBSD.org> <47EB9A2B.4060203@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47EB9A2B.4060203@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:56:59 -0000 Coleman Kane wrote: > Coleman Kane wrote: >> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:54 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >>> >>>> 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. :-( >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for finding this. Here is a patch for hal which adds a mouse >>> addon. The mouse addon polls to find whether or not moused has a given >>> mouse device open. If it does, it sets the input device to >>> be /dev/sysmouse instead of the actual device. Hopefully it will fix >>> the problem without needing to disable hal support in X. I have also >>> merged your gettimeofday patches, jkim. >>> >>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff >>> >>> Joe >> I had to apply the attached change to your patch in order to get it to >> work (addon/ should be addons/). Attached is the diff to your diff >> that worked for me. >> >> -- >> Coleman Kane > Unfortunately, I still experience the same mouse-blocked behavior after > applying this patch, reinstalling the port, and then restarting my > machine (and setting the mouse device back to SysMouse and /dev/sysmouse > in xorg.conf, and re-enabling moused). Yeah. While the addon is doing its job, X now opens two instances of /dev/sysmouse :-(. I still don't know why it does this when it doesn't open two instances of /dev/psm0. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome