From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 15:35:25 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 81A14106566C for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 15:35:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (mail-vb0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AD48FC12 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 15:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbmv11 with SMTP id v11so2408233vbm.13 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 08:35:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z9GVR5CQ1MsHcGut80gw9UAOeSasHqlPKfK8UW70hQY=; b=dJz+ZUdPT0f9aEHgVLlm+NOjA68fWYvb37vudGBahHIGFFaXYvvuIWf2m5H3SotoCR 7X/wn+mJRKKmYxrhhmlBNT/o65YHSPuca8I8lG+tF97ZX556IStQaB7V7B80ouh3ZBHM RDn5fmWZaMIlKj2g0hpyy5eNnSG1ndMDPkealFnjrvPnm1/Kw2VAbCKDT+6LXBRgBexb /I10w/8Lsf69ml1hErUOnw/qVIN4v7RT+gA33aqba4UOqRKRERclFZK1oydhTUuyXViu TylaXRvjBt66AUtesNGcdM4ybJmocMBE0eD6F4xGE86C+VGycmR7SMUYvU/sGJCV+FL5 uLgw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.174.52 with SMTP id bp20mr4228148vdc.29.1337268924565; Thu, 17 May 2012 08:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.28.240 with HTTP; Thu, 17 May 2012 08:35:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20120517110155.GA37078@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:35:24 +0100 Message-ID: From: Tom Evans To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 15:35:25 -0000 On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: >> 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. =C2=A0O= ne > notebook needed moused_enable, but that's all. =C2=A0Can't recall whether= that > one even has InputDevice sections in xorg.conf. =C2=A0I'll post the confi= g in a > bit. Yes, moused is exceptional in that regard, but my main issue is attaching/detaching keyboards. Most of my time, I use a PS/2 Model M, connected to a laptop dock with a USB<->PS/2 adaptor. I need that when I undock, I can use the laptop keyboard, and when I redock, that I get back my external keyboard. I suppose the equivalent to sysmouse/moused is kbdmux, but with hald and older Xorg, this did just DTRT. Cheers Tom PS: I just read to the end of the thread, Warren your config looks interesting if it can handle hotplugging keyboards. I will give this a try this evening, I also want to do some testing to see if the state in hald changes between xorg restarts.