Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:04:01 -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>, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: xorg loops Message-ID: <1238979841.1829.20.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904051939060.10499@thor.farley.org> References: <49D8D03B.8090302@arcor.de> <1238956838.1829.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904051535280.98564@thor.farley.org> <1238969895.1829.14.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904051939060.10499@thor.farley.org>
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--=-BFnapnKk3+6ZwHoef94m Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 19:53 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Robert Noland wrote: >=20 > > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 15:39 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote: > >> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Robert Noland wrote: > >> > >>> Use moused... I've seen this with some of my mice lately... I don't > >>> know the input driver stuff well enough to really chase it down > >>> without wasting a lot of time that is better spent on other things. > >>> My experience was that it either happened right after X startup, or i= t > >>> would be fine. I think maybe the bug is in the psm driver in the > >>> kernel, but I'm not certain. > >> > >> For another point of interest, after the xserver (and xf86-input-mouse= ) > >> updates to 1.6, my laptop's GlidePointPS/2 is no longer detected as > >> such. It uses vanilla PS/2 for it. I do not use hal nor moused. Thi= s > >> 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 wher= e > > to go looking for trouble. > > > > robert. >=20 > While the mouse driver is patched, I do not see where XPS2_SUPPORT is=20 > actually set anywhere in the build. I remember messing with that after the last upgrade, when I was trying to deal with mice issues. jkim@ said something about it only being supported on more recent platforms. robert. > Defining it allows the driver to detect my mouse. Actually, before the=20 > patch it would not even let me set it to GlidePointPS/2. >=20 > Sean --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-BFnapnKk3+6ZwHoef94m 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) iEYEABECAAYFAknZVQEACgkQM4TrQ4qfROP/6gCfY37fxcImAWSm8qzhpTua9ayi 51AAnAx9+z6vzi/a19QNNbQgfqxb0ZlT =1zGK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BFnapnKk3+6ZwHoef94m--
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