Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:35:24 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "A.J. Fonz van Werven" <fonz@skysmurf.nl> Subject: Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working Message-ID: <CAFHbX1KY9wvsC-5%2ByNdvFHu4xerws=ukwM0-nq5JuWZK%2B7%2BbPg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205170825500.59173@wonkity.com> References: <20120517110155.GA37078@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> <CAFHbX1K%2B-WeTWRAoRi5JArUuTAtSzSTM2JDtQAB5sKhj_Xs7RQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205170825500.59173@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: >> This doesn't work for me, I need working hald as I plug and unplug >> keyboards and mice each time I take my laptop out of its dock, > > > There might be some hardware thing in your setup that requires hald, but = I > do manage to hot-connect external USB mice without HAL installed. =C2=A0O= ne > notebook needed moused_enable, but that's all. =C2=A0Can't recall whether= that > one even has InputDevice sections in xorg.conf. =C2=A0I'll post the confi= g in a > bit. Yes, moused is exceptional in that regard, but my main issue is attaching/detaching keyboards. Most of my time, I use a PS/2 Model M, connected to a laptop dock with a USB<->PS/2 adaptor. I need that when I undock, I can use the laptop keyboard, and when I redock, that I get back my external keyboard. I suppose the equivalent to sysmouse/moused is kbdmux, but with hald and older Xorg, this did just DTRT. Cheers Tom PS: I just read to the end of the thread, Warren your config looks interesting if it can handle hotplugging keyboards. I will give this a try this evening, I also want to do some testing to see if the state in hald changes between xorg restarts.
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