From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 16:49:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA2E106564A for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:49:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=e89b7a2edf9ce372b8a9ff0c0c9de8a101f2ff5f=653=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal3.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:14:3::8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB2078FC19 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:49:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=e89b7a2edf9ce372b8a9ff0c0c9de8a101f2ff5f=653=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP (SSL) id HTY81149; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:49:49 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 1DD894500F; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:49:49 -0700 (PDT) To: Jung-uk Kim In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:35:58 EDT." <200803261735.59378.jkim@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1206636589_27367P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:49:49 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080327164949.1DD894500F@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ;; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Jung-uk Kim X-To_Domain: freebsd.org X-To: Jung-uk Kim X-To_Email: jkim@FreeBSD.org X-To_Alias: jkim Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities) X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:49:51 -0000 --==_Exmh_1206636589_27367P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > From: Jung-uk Kim > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:35:58 -0400 > > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:18 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > From: Jung-uk Kim > > > 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. :-) Thanks a lot! The re-built xorg-server seems to take care of it and I have re-enabled hald on my systems. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1206636589_27367P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFH69Atkn3rs5h7N1ERAinJAJ4srrJHlx2bqrNnlKtqzTm5AnEp5QCcC8xe X7fOjKZy1Q+WlK5nVuRes2E= =Qx+Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1206636589_27367P--