Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:31:59 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) Message-ID: <47EAC0CF.7020704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080326211832.DAA774500E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20080326211832.DAA774500E@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >> From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> >> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:07 -0400 >> Sender: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org >> >> 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. :-( >> >> Jung-uk Kim >> >> > > So this explains the problem, but it still means that, if it is not > fixed, I can't run hald...and I want to run hald. I'm trying to think of > a way around it, but it's not obvious. Any answer is probably not > going to be clean as people might like, either. > Is it possible that hald is enumerating /dev/bpsm0 ? -- Coleman Kane
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