Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:24:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: andrnils@gmail.com Cc: darius@dons.net.au, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, fullermd@over-yonder.net Subject: =?iso-2022-jp?Q?Re:_What_is_the_Right_Way(=1B$(D"o=1B(B)_to_run?= X? Message-ID: <201303172224.r2HMOg25013615@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPS9%2BSsjwy%2B8CojdAY0dLfkFpLv%2Bbyz9d0YYT-GWKHhWP-u=fA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 17 Mar, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Daniel O'Connor <darius@dons.net.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
>> wrote:
>> > However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding
>> > the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it
>> > show up working, but that's annoying and stupid (and not an option on
>> > other systems with e.g. PS/2 meece). I wound up sticking the "other
>> > half" of that oft-cargo-culted incantation:
>> >
>> > Section "ServerFlags"
>> > Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
>> > EndSection
>> >
>> > in my config, and it's worked OK since. 's probably worth a try...
>>
>>
>> Yeah, that does work too. It's just annoying it's necessary :)
>>
>
> Sure is. One thing that also comes to mind is moused. Do you have it
> running? I seem to remember having weird troubles when moused wasn't
> running.
I ran into this problem a while back. The problem turned out to be that
moused was exclusively opening /dev/psm0 before hald so that hald was
unable open it. This happened first on my laptop, and I just disabled
moused and everything seemed to work except that the trackpad no longer
worked in console mode. I tried the same thing later when my primary
desktop broke and it sort of worked. The problem that I ran into was
that Xorg would occasionally wedge and spam its log with messages about
problems with detecting the mouse protocol. Even worse, I found that my
KVM switch would very reliably trigger this problem. After much hair
pulling, I eventually re-enabled moused and added this to xorg.conf:
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off"
so that it would obey this mouse configuration section:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
I don't recall if I disabled hald and changed xorg.conf to point to
/dev/psm0 before I re-enabled moused. I do know that hald is currently
disabled and nothing obvious seems to be broken in Gnome.
I haven't had any issues with AllowEmptyInput so I never bothered to
switch over to the preferred AutoAddDevices.
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