Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:07:31 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) Message-ID: <47ECA743.5000703@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <47EBF20D.9060909@freebsd.org> References: <47EBF0C7.6010901@infracaninophile.co.uk> <47EBF20D.9060909@freebsd.org>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> * Apply the patch to sysutils/hal you Joe Marcus Clarke posted
>> else-thread. This had no discernable effect.
>
> Which patch? The first one or the second one? The current one is 19996
> bytes. After applying it, you would need to restart hald, then restart X.
Uh -- this version:
lack-of-gravitas:/tmp:% ls -la hal.diff
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthew wheel 18650 Mar 27 12:55 hal.diff
I see you've updated the patch since -- I give the latest a try shortly.
>>
>> * Disable hald in /etc/rc.conf and turn it off. Again, no obvious
>> effect.
>>
>> * Recompile x11-servers/xorg-server and toggle off the HAL support
>> in OPTIONS.
>
> If hal was the problem, disabling hald, then rebooting (or shutting down
> hald then restarting X) should have fixed this as well.
Hmmm... I can't honestly say for certain, but I am pretty sure I tried
restarting the X server (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) at each stage.
Cheers,
Matthew
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