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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2012 08:29:38 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, "A.J. Fonz van Werven" <fonz@skysmurf.nl>
Subject:   Re: [stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205170825500.59173@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFHbX1K%2B-WeTWRAoRi5JArUuTAtSzSTM2JDtQAB5sKhj_Xs7RQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, A.J. "Fonz" van Werven
> <fonz@skysmurf.nl> wrote:
>> After moving from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE yesterday, the touchpad mouse on
>> my netbook stopped working. When I do
>> # /etc/rc.d/moused onestart
>> the pointer appears and can be moved for a second or two, then it stops
>> responding. Any thoughts?
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> FreeBSD ace.skysmurf.nl 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Thu May 17 10:49:00 CEST 2012     root@ace.skysmurf.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>
>
> Did you mean the mouse doesn't move in xorg, or on the console? If in
> xorg, have you seen this thread on x11@?
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-April/011756.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-May/011851.html
>
> The proposed solution is to set AutoAddDevices off, so that hald is
> not used to enumerate mice/keyboards, and instead rely on explicitly
> configuring them in your xorg.conf.
>
> This doesn't work for me, I need working hald as I plug and unplug
> keyboards and mice each time I take my laptop out of its dock,

There might be some hardware thing in your setup that requires hald, but 
I do manage to hot-connect external USB mice without HAL installed.  One 
notebook needed moused_enable, but that's all.  Can't recall whether 
that one even has InputDevice sections in xorg.conf.  I'll post the 
config in a bit.
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