Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:29:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, "A.J. Fonz van Werven" <fonz@skysmurf.nl> Subject: Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205170825500.59173@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFHbX1K%2B-WeTWRAoRi5JArUuTAtSzSTM2JDtQAB5sKhj_Xs7RQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120517110155.GA37078@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> <CAFHbX1K%2B-WeTWRAoRi5JArUuTAtSzSTM2JDtQAB5sKhj_Xs7RQ@mail.gmail.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---902635197-1637504961-1337264978=:59173 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, A.J. "Fonz" van Werven > <fonz@skysmurf.nl> wrote: >> After moving from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE yesterday, the touchpad mouse on >> my netbook stopped working. When I do >> # /etc/rc.d/moused onestart >> the pointer appears and can be moved for a second or two, then it stops >> responding. Any thoughts? >> >> $ uname -a >> FreeBSD ace.skysmurf.nl 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Thu May 17 10:49:00 CEST 2012 root@ace.skysmurf.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >> > > Did you mean the mouse doesn't move in xorg, or on the console? If in > xorg, have you seen this thread on x11@? > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-April/011756.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-May/011851.html > > The proposed solution is to set AutoAddDevices off, so that hald is > not used to enumerate mice/keyboards, and instead rely on explicitly > configuring them in your xorg.conf. > > 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. One notebook needed moused_enable, but that's all. Can't recall whether that one even has InputDevice sections in xorg.conf. I'll post the config in a bit. ---902635197-1637504961-1337264978=:59173--
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