From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 18 15:23:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15411065675 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:23:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thompsa@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pele.citylink.co.nz (pele.citylink.co.nz [202.8.44.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B840D8FC18 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:23:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thompsa@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pele.citylink.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B67FF6E; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:23:54 +1300 (NZDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at citylink.co.nz Received: from pele.citylink.co.nz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pele.citylink.co.nz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5mukwhNUqUNF; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:23:50 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from citylink.fud.org.nz (unknown [202.8.44.45]) by pele.citylink.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:23:50 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by citylink.fud.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5C34E1142F; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:23:50 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:23:50 -0700 From: Andrew Thompson To: Mattia Rossi Message-ID: <20090318152350.GA65816@citylink.fud.org.nz> References: <49C083A4.5020608@swin.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49C083A4.5020608@swin.edu.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB2, mouse and X X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:23:56 -0000 On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:16:20PM +1100, Mattia Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen that there are a lot of issues with mice and the new USB2 stack, > but as my problem is still not resolved with the current kernel, i think > it's time to report my problem: > > My mouse (or maybe keyboard?) issues regard only the X window system (I > tried fluxbox and KDE4). Mouse and keyboard are USB, attached via a USB hub > (integrated in my monitor). They both work without flaws in the console, > but it's a pain to write text in different windows in X. The typed text > just doesn't get displayed some times, unless the mouse cursor is moved. > Sometimes after typing some text, and moving the mouse afterwards, the text > gets written, but letters will be grouped together and look like this: > > this iss whahatppen > > (this is what happens) > > Would be nice if this issue (which persists since the introduction of USB2) > could be solved. I observed this problem a while ago on my laptop and it went away when I stopped the hal daemon and restarted X. I havnt checked it recently but it may be something you want to quickly test. Andrew