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Date:      Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:48:37 +0100
From:      Matthias Gamsjager <mgamsjager@gmail.com>
To:        Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>
Cc:        stable-list freebsd <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 10.0-RC4 -> 10.0-RC5: Xorg stopped using /dev/sysmouse
Message-ID:  <CA%2BD9Qhsk7EfT%2BH8_E8690-P877c5emWQVKx0Hjwk2Q4Ezjz8Wg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <52CEA744.8050105@janh.de>
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Killing all moused processes 'fixes' Xorg mouse but proper patch would be
nice


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> wrote:

> Although the announcement is still pending, I have just upgraded two
> machines from 10.0-RC4 to 10.0-RC5. Now my mouse is not working in Xorg
> anymore.
>
> Is it necessary to rebuild all ports due to the ABI change in r260406?
> Is there a reasonable way to find out, which ports are affected? Is
> r260406 related at all?
>
> Some details in case the cause of the problem is not simply using old
> packages:
>
> /dev/psm0 and /dev/usm0 are both picked up by moused and still work on
> ttyvX (due to moused_enable="YES" and devd_enable="YES" in rc.conf).
>
> Before the upgrade, Xorg would use /dev/sysmouse, but now it tries to
> open /dev/psm0 and /dev/usm0 directly, which fails, since they are
> already in use.
>
> I thought "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" as "InputDevice" in my xorg.conf was
> still relevant, but at least /dev/psm0 and /dev/usm0 are detected by
> hald, since they are not listed in xorg.conf.
>
> From ps, I see hald is still recognizing sysmouse:
>
> hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/psm0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)
> hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/ums0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)
>
> All ports related are up to date and have been build WITH_NEW_XORG=yes
> but otherwise default options on 10.0-RC3 or 10.0-RC4 (amd64).
>
> Cheers,
> Jan Henrik
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