Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:14:31 +0100 From: Daniel Thiele <dthiele@gmx.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: jylefort@FreeBSD.org, marcus@FreeBSD.org Subject: hal does not recognize all USB mice Message-ID: <497EEC97.8010706@gmx.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As the subject suggests hal does not recognize all the USB mice that are connected to my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE box. I am using an IBM Ultranav Keyboard which has a build-in TouchPad and a build-in TrackPoint. Both are being detected by devd as /dev/ums0 and /dev/ums1, respectively. hal, on the other hand, only seems to detect /dev/ums0 and fails to recognize the TrackPoint. If I connect a third USB mouse to this machine, however, both devd and hal recognize this (third) mouse as /dev/ums2. The Problem with the TrackPoint might be related to the way the IBM Ultranav keyboard make its mice available as USB devices. According to usbdevs' output (see below) they both share the same vendor and product ID as well as the same port and address. I am not that fluent in USB's terminology but I think that only makes them distinguishable as separate endpoints of the mouse device that provides them? So maybe the problem lies somewhere in the code that connects hal to devd and somehow skips devices that, at first sight, seem to be identical. Maybe there is already a solution that I wasn't able to find? Of course, I am willing to try any patches and help to further narrow down the problem. Which, for the time being, is the only issue that prevents me from using hal together with xorg's auto configuration. Best regards, Daniel Additional information about my machine: % uname -a FreeBSD iridium.vnws.lan 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jul 20 14:05:24 CEST 2008 root@iridium.vnws.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kernel_70v0 i386 It's pretty old for a STABLE, but I haven't had the time to update it, recently. If that seems to be part of the problem, I will, of course, try to find the time to update. % pkg_info -Ix hal hal-0.5.11_14 Hardware Abstraction Layer for simplifying device access hal-info-20080508_1 Additional FDI files to further classify HAL devices # usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00 ~ port 1 powered ~ port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb1: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00 ~ port 1 powered ~ port 2 addr 2: full speed, power 40 mA, config 1, USB 1.1 2 port downstream low-power hub(0x3016), Lite-On Tech(0x04b3), rev 2.01 ~ port 1 powered ~ port 2 powered ~ port 3 addr 3: low speed, power 70 mA, config 1, IBM USB Keyboard with UltraNav(0x3018), Lite-On Tech(0x04b3), rev 1.16 ~ port 4 addr 4: low speed, power 100 mA, config 1, Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint(0x0009), Synaptics Inc.(0x06cb), rev 0.20 Controller /dev/usb2: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00 ~ port 1 powered ~ port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb3: addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00 ~ port 1 powered ~ port 2 powered ~ port 3 powered ~ port 4 powered ~ port 5 powered ~ port 6 powered The output 'devd -Dd' generates right after I attach the IBM Ultranav keyboard can be found at: http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0023183/FreeBSD/devd The output of lshal is located at: http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0023183/FreeBSD/lshal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl+7JMACgkQCOZKcWNoXg5laACbB0MvWUBDuclMzqsAsNMFP/tR 3FsAn2IKHk4zySzDK6rde06fklpKTTe1 =QahC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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