Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:43:07 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: cokane@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) Message-ID: <1206722587.2392.30.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <47ED1AA0.80309@FreeBSD.org> References: <47EA7ED2.8030406@freebsd.org> <47EB9A2B.4060203@FreeBSD.org> <47EBCED1.8060308@freebsd.org> <200803271908.34129.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <1206681177.83202.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <47ECEC78.4010200@FreeBSD.org> <1206721119.2392.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <47ED1AA0.80309@FreeBSD.org>
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--=-KonZyucSrl/IAhnuCUCQ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 12:19 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 09:02 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > > =20 > >> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >> =20 > >>> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 19:08 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > >>> =20 > >>> =20 > >>>> On Thursday 27 March 2008 12:44 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>>> =20 > >>>> =20 > >>>>> Coleman Kane wrote: > >>>>> =20 > >>>>> =20 > >>>>>> Coleman Kane wrote: > >>>>>> =20 > >>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:54 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > >>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>>> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 12:50 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>>>> 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? > >>>>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>>> 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. :-( > >>>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>> 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.=20 > >>>>>>>> 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 > >>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>> 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 > >>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>>> =20 > >>>>>> 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). > >>>>>> =20 > >>>>>> =20 > >>>>> 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. > >>>>> =20 > >>>>> =20 > >>>> I found why. See config/hal.c in xorg-server. It does not add Opti= on > >>>> "Device" although Linux-specific and undocumented Option "Path" for > >>>> evdev is added. Thus default mouse device /dev/sysmouse is picked u= p. > >>>> Fortunately the bug is fixed in the latest version with the followin= g > >>>> commit: > >>>> > >>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=3D47eb658e802775= 021e3efec109f95431cca188ca > >>>> > >>>> This chunk: > >>>> > >>>> --------- > >>>> + /* most drivers use device.. not path. evdev uses both however, = but the > >>>> + * path version isn't documented apparently. support both for no= w. */ > >>>> add_option(&options, "path", path); > >>>> + add_option(&options, "device", path); > >>>> --------- > >>>> > >>>> See the attached patches. > >>>> =20 > >>>> =20 > >>> Ah, this explains a lot. I have also updated my hal.diff with your > >>> correction, and some code to make sure that the mouse device is corre= ct > >>> when moused is running. Local tests indicate that it should do the j= ob. > >>> > >>> Joe > >>> =20 > >>> =20 > >> So, does this mean we should upgrade the sysutils/hald port (and other= =20 > >> related ones) again? Is this in a released version? > >> =20 > > > > Apply http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff and > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/xorg-server.diff then rebuild hal and > > xorg-server. Then reboot. All should be well again with moused/hal/X. > > > > Joe > > =20 > Thanks, >=20 > If we submit a PR on this, to fix the problem, is there a version of=20 > hald that's released which already has the fix, or should we just submit=20 > a PR with patches to both ports? I'm trying to get with flz so that he can commit the xorg-server part. I will commit the hal patch soon. I don't think a PR is necessary this point. We're close to having all the players on board already. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-KonZyucSrl/IAhnuCUCQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkftIBsACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4dxFwCfblsK2WR0yumGiy9nT2bzXSkM YhUAnRBzpN15Rm2XkcIBxve2OGZtMHTp =DHFe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-KonZyucSrl/IAhnuCUCQ--
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