Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:18:15 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de> Subject: Re: xorg loops Message-ID: <1238969895.1829.14.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904051535280.98564@thor.farley.org> References: <49D8D03B.8090302@arcor.de> <1238956838.1829.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904051535280.98564@thor.farley.org>
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--=-ncyviYUHgaB2b2rSXDgE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 15:39 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Robert Noland wrote: >=20 > > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:37 +0200, Manfred Lotz wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> Using 8 current from time to time I have an xorg problem. > >> > >> Getting millions of those messages > >> > >> (II) Mouse autoprobe: Changing protocol to ExplorerPS/2 > >> (II) Mouse autoprobe: Changing protocol to ImPS/2 > >> > >> the system is unusable. No response from keyboard or mouse any more. > >> > >> Any idea, what I can do to prevent this from happining? > > > > Use moused... I've seen this with some of my mice lately... I don't=20 > > know the input driver stuff well enough to really chase it down=20 > > without wasting a lot of time that is better spent on other things.=20 > > My experience was that it either happened right after X startup, or it=20 > > would be fine. I think maybe the bug is in the psm driver in the=20 > > kernel, but I'm not certain. >=20 > For another point of interest, after the xserver (and xf86-input-mouse)=20 > updates to 1.6, my laptop's GlidePointPS/2 is no longer detected as=20 > such. It uses vanilla PS/2 for it. I do not use hal nor moused. This=20 > is with RELENG_7, so it is not just CURRENT with the problem. There were no changes to the mouse driver. Only difference is that the os-support routines now only live in the mouse driver. So that is where to go looking for trouble. robert. > Sean --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-ncyviYUHgaB2b2rSXDgE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAknZLicACgkQM4TrQ4qfRONNfgCfW4IaBUBMhE2kYYfoCYEESSuF vlgAn2Xvj3vCW5ElohsI+i5iNsunhToE =D6cG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ncyviYUHgaB2b2rSXDgE--
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