From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 20 15:25:10 2010 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 65893106566B for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:25:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gizmo.2hip.net (gizmo.2hip.net [64.74.207.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2958FC18 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:25:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (adsl-154-185-142.bna.bellsouth.net [68.154.185.142]) (authenticated bits=0) by gizmo.2hip.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2KFP7OQ024040 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:25:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) From: Robert Noland To: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <201003191602.16744.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <201003180949.02302.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4BA378EE.9070103@icyb.net.ua> <201003191602.16744.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: FreeBSD Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:25:02 -0500 Message-Id: <1269098702.2509.30.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX, RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RDNS_DYNAMIC,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on gizmo.2hip.net Cc: Eitan Adler , Andriy Gapon , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X doesn't update until the mouse moves (not HAL related) 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: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:25:10 -0000 On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:02 +0100, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > on 19/03/2010 13:34 Eitan Adler said the following: > > > I have a similar problem with X on 8.0-RELEASE. I asked around and > > > found that other X users (including Linux users) have this problem > > > on intel chipsets. > > > > But Daniel says that kernel update helps him :) > > So, it must be something different with similar symptoms. > > > > BTW, you could also try a kernel from stable/8 and see how that works > > out. > > I have had the hald problem with multiple opens of /dev/sysmouse but > that is fixed. > > There are a large number of intel chipsets - there's sure to be many > bugs :) IIRC, this was actually a bug in the interrupt code. Specifically, the handling of MSI on chips > i945. The commit should have been either from me or jhb@ and a search of the email archives should turn something up. robert. -- Robert Noland FreeBSD