From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 17:54:54 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 0F543106566B; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:54:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30ADA8FC1B; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:54:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m2RHsp628980; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:54:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.221.85] (dhcp-64-102-221-85.cisco.com [64.102.221.85]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m2RHtWu06175; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:55:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <47EBDF6B.9040406@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:54:51 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jung-uk Kim References: <47EA7ED2.8030406@freebsd.org> <47EB9A2B.4060203@FreeBSD.org> <47EBCED1.8060308@freebsd.org> <200803271315.16698.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200803271315.16698.jkim@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, cokane@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 17:54:54 -0000 Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Thursday 27 March 2008 12:44 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> Coleman Kane wrote: >>> Coleman Kane wrote: >>>> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:54 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >>>>>> 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. :-( >>>>> Thanks for finding this. Here is a patch for hal which adds a >>>>> mouse addon. The mouse addon polls to find whether or not >>>>> moused has a given mouse device open. If it does, it sets the >>>>> input device to be /dev/sysmouse instead of the actual device. >>>>> Hopefully it will fix the problem without needing to disable >>>>> hal support in X. I have also merged your gettimeofday >>>>> patches, jkim. >>>>> >>>>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff >>>>> >>>>> Joe >>>> I had to apply the attached change to your patch in order to get >>>> it to work (addon/ should be addons/). Attached is the diff to >>>> your diff that worked for me. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Coleman Kane >>> Unfortunately, I still experience the same mouse-blocked behavior >>> after applying this patch, reinstalling the port, and then >>> restarting my machine (and setting the mouse device back to >>> SysMouse and /dev/sysmouse in xorg.conf, and re-enabling moused). >> Yeah. While the addon is doing its job, X now opens two instances >> of /dev/sysmouse :-(. I still don't know why it does this when it >> doesn't open two instances of /dev/psm0. > > /dev/sysmouse is a special case and it is done in OS-dependent code. > HAL support code in xorg-server is OS-independent naturally. Thus it > does not care if it is pointing to the same /dev/sysmouse. Is there > any way to set it disabled when moused is running instead of > replacing the device node with /dev/sysmouse? Yeah. A new patch is up, but I am away from my broken machines, so I can't test. http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome