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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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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


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