Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:42:43 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) Message-ID: <47EAC353.7030802@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200803261735.59378.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080326211832.DAA774500E@ptavv.es.net> <200803261735.59378.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:18 pm, 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. >> > > moused + hald + xorg-server runs just fine if you build xorg-server > without HAL support. I am using it on two machines now. :-) > > Jung-uk Kim > What do you lose by compiling X.org WITHOUT_HAL? -- Coleman
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