From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 18 03:20:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965C930D; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:20:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB88184; Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp121-45-1-201.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.1.201]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r2I3JxLU005241 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:50:05 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Re=3A_What_is_the_Right_Way=28=EF=BF=BD=22o=29_to_run_?= =?utf-8?Q?X=3F?= Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:49:59 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <201303172224.r2HMOg25013615@gw.catspoiler.org> <624366A6-5E01-43CB-8C1A-2E4D595A1F90@dons.net.au> To: Kevin Oberman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Don Lewis , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, andrnils@gmail.com, fullermd@over-yonder.net X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:20:25 -0000 On 18/03/2013, at 11:51, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> This sounds exactly like what I have, although I do find it odd that = hal doesn't manage to open /dev/sysmouse and use that (even if it fails = for /dev/ums* etc). lshal does show a mount device listed with = /dev/sysmouse as the device name. >=20 > Very odd. I have been running with xorg, sysmouse and hal for a long = time with no real issues. No AutoAddDevices or AllowEmptyInput at all. >=20 > lshal shows that the magic is working: > di =3D '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/psm_0' > freebsd.device_file =3D '/dev/psm0' (string) > freebsd.driver =3D 'psm' (string) > freebsd.unit =3D 0 (0x0) (int) > info.addons =3D {'hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse'} (string list) > info.capabilities =3D {'input', 'input.mouse'} (string list) > info.category =3D 'input' (string) > info.parent =3D '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0' (string) > info.product =3D 'PS/2 Mouse' (string) > info.subsystem =3D 'platform' (string) > info.udi =3D '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/psm_0' (string) > input.device =3D '/dev/sysmouse' (string) > input.x11_driver =3D 'mouse' (string) > platform.id =3D 'psm.0' (string) >=20 > Note that the input.device is sysmouse and that it works. Does lshal = how the input device to be sysmouse on your system? Yes. I wonder, I have 2 USB mice maybe that is a problem. The full output of lshal is at http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/lshal.txt -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C