Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 19:55:15 +0200 From: Vittorio De Martino <vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: kde & kdm & mouse - AGAIN Message-ID: <200505161955.15328.vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it>
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I have the latest installation of freebsd 5.4 on my laptop, kde & kdm 3.4.
The laptop has a synaptic mousepad endowed of two buttons that in normal
conditions are not used at all being enough to double-hit on the pad to ha=
ve
the same effect as that of pressing the left button.
Now at boot time I enabled moused
# ps ax|grep moused
493 ?? Ss 0:00.54 /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto
And the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
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Now it happens that:
1) If I start kde as a user by means of the command startx (having put
startkde into .xinitrc) the mouse(-pad) works as expected: I can move around
the screen and select and launch programs just moving on the pad and double
hitting the pad . No problems! In a nutshell no need to press the left
button.
2) If at boot time I start kde by means of kdm having put in /etc/ttys:
ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
and modified /etc/pam.d as required to autologin, I immediatedly and
automagically login into kde as a user and the mouse works BUT... with the
pad I can only move around the screen and the double-hit doesn't work anymo=
re
so that I have to use the left button cumpulsorily (and annoyingly).
My feeling is that moused is both somewhat slow and one of the last services
to be executed. Therefore I highly suspect that the execution of moused in
some way overlaps with the execution of autologin kdm at boot time causing
the malfunctioning mousepad behaviour.
Now I'm trying to delay a bit the execution of kdm by adding something like
ttyv8 =A0 "/bin/sleep 2;/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" =A0xterm =A0 on =A0se=
cure
ttyv8 =A0 "/bin/sleep 2 && /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" =A0xterm =A0 on =
=A0secure
but FreeBSD doesn't seem to like either: it doesn't execute kdm and issue a
warning about a delay of 60 seconds??????
=A0
How could I delay a bit the autologin kdm?
Ciao
Vittorio
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