From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 1 08:44:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6BE1065674 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 08:44:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4E678FC2B for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 08:44:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KFT008PUK9FDRE0@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:44:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n218i2YV039822; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:44:03 -0500 Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:44:02 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <49AA4954.7010700@a1poweruser.com> To: Fbsd1 Message-id: <49AA4AD2.8030908@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <49AA4954.7010700@a1poweruser.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090228) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Xorg mouse and massive error log messages problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:44:05 -0000 Fbsd1 wrote: > Just installed Xorg package from parkages-current hoping to get > environment containing all the fixes. Still have the no mouse curser > movement on xfce desktop. > > Adding > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off" > statement to ServerLayout section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf > got the mouse curser moving. > But I still get the the mouse error messages in the X11 log. > > {EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 Device busy. > (EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "PS/2 Mouse" > (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed > > Is there some other correct solution? > > > I am receiving massive flooding of the Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" > with the follow messages > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0" > > I found a post in the questions archives where the person was saying > these messages are meaningless and can be ignored. It's not a problem > the ignore them, but my log get massive in size and consumes my free > disk space. I know i can configure to rotate the log at a given size. > But that is not the solution. I need to know how to stop these > messages from being issued in the first place. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Under xorg 7.4 you need to gave both dbus and hald running... as to the error message there is not much you can do until every X app is upgraded to support 7.4