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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2012 15:14:56 +0100
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        "A.J. Fonz van Werven" <fonz@skysmurf.nl>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working
Message-ID:  <CAFHbX1K%2B-WeTWRAoRi5JArUuTAtSzSTM2JDtQAB5sKhj_Xs7RQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120517110155.GA37078@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>
References:  <20120517110155.GA37078@spectrum.skysmurf.nl>

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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, A.J. "Fonz" van Werven
<fonz@skysmurf.nl> wrote:
> After moving from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE yesterday, the touchpad mouse o=
n
> my netbook stopped working. When I do
> # /etc/rc.d/moused onestart
> the pointer appears and can be moved for a second or two, then it stops
> responding. Any thoughts?
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD ace.skysmurf.nl 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Thu May 17 10:4=
9:00 CEST 2012 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 root@ace.skysmurf.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENE=
RIC =C2=A0i386
>
> Fonz
>

Did you mean the mouse doesn't move in xorg, or on the console? If in
xorg, have you seen this thread on x11@?

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-April/011756.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-May/011851.html

The proposed solution is to set AutoAddDevices off, so that hald is
not used to enumerate mice/keyboards, and instead rely on explicitly
configuring them in your xorg.conf.

This doesn't work for me, I need working hald as I plug and unplug
keyboards and mice each time I take my laptop out of its dock, so
instead I boot to console, and run this ugly hack:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm onestart ; sleep 20 ; /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm onere=
start

Normally after it has restarted once, X can finally talk to hald and
find the mice and keyboards.

Cheers

Tom



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