From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 14:29:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34291065670 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 14:29:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 440828FC0A for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 14:29:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4HETcBa059471; Thu, 17 May 2012 08:29:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q4HETcPD059468; Thu, 17 May 2012 08:29:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:29:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Tom Evans In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20120517110155.GA37078@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-902635197-1637504961-1337264978=:59173" X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 17 May 2012 08:29:38 -0600 (MDT) Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "A.J. Fonz van Werven" Subject: Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 14:29:44 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---902635197-1637504961-1337264978=:59173 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, A.J. "Fonz" van Werven > wrote: >> After moving from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE yesterday, the touchpad mouse on >> 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 10:49:00 CEST 2012     root@ace.skysmurf.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386 >> > > 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, There might be some hardware thing in your setup that requires hald, but I do manage to hot-connect external USB mice without HAL installed. One notebook needed moused_enable, but that's all. Can't recall whether that one even has InputDevice sections in xorg.conf. I'll post the config in a bit. ---902635197-1637504961-1337264978=:59173--