Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:24:51 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) Message-ID: <47EB9213.7050509@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1206597105.80352.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <47EA7ED2.8030406@freebsd.org> <200803261654.09551.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <1206597105.80352.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:54 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > >> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 12:50 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to get a list of commonalities to better focus my >>> troubleshooting. So far, my two machines that are affected have >>> the following in common: >>> >>> GNOME 2.22 (with hald) >>> nVidia graphics card (though different drivers) >>> PS/2 mouse >>> dual core >>> ULE scheduler >>> >>> My one machine that is not affected differs from this in that it >>> has an Intel graphics card, USB mouse, and is not dual core (but >>> HTT). >>> >>> It looks like Coleman has a PS/2 mouse as well. It's starting to >>> look like the mouse technology might have something to do with >>> this. Anyone seeing this problem with a USB mouse? >>> >> I think I know why. Build xorg-server without HAL support option and >> the attached patch. With HAL support (default) and hald running, >> xorg-server auto-detects individual ports with input.mouse capability >> even without configuration lines in xorg.conf. If moused is enabled >> and USB mouse is used, /dev/ums0 is directly used because there is a >> problem in MD code (see attached patch). If moused is enabled and >> PS/2 mouse is used, you end up with two input devices >> via /dev/sysmouse and /dev/psm0. I couldn't find a cleaner way to >> fix this problem, though. :-( >> > > Thanks for finding this. Here is a patch for hal which adds a mouse > addon. The mouse addon polls to find whether or not moused has a given > mouse device open. If it does, it sets the input device to > be /dev/sysmouse instead of the actual device. Hopefully it will fix > the problem without needing to disable hal support in X. I have also > merged your gettimeofday patches, jkim. > > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff > > Joe I had to apply the attached change to your patch in order to get it to work (addon/ should be addons/). Attached is the diff to your diff that worked for me. -- Coleman Kane [-- Attachment #2 --] --- hal.diff 2008-03-27 08:23:13.000000000 -0400 +++ hal.diff.orig 2008-03-27 08:22:50.000000000 -0400 @@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ --- hal.orig/files/patch-hald_freebsd_addons_addon-mouse.c 1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600 +++ hal/files/patch-hald_freebsd_addons_addon-mouse.c 2008-03-27 01:48:52.000000000 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ -+--- hald/freebsd/addons/addon-mouse.c.orig 2008-03-27 01:00:20.000000000 -0400 -++++ hald/freebsd/addons/addon-mouse.c 2008-03-27 01:44:19.000000000 -0400 ++--- hald/freebsd/addon/addon-mouse.c.orig 2008-03-27 01:00:20.000000000 -0400 +++++ hald/freebsd/addon/addon-mouse.c 2008-03-27 01:44:19.000000000 -0400 +@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ ++/*************************************************************************** ++ * CVSID: $Id$
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