Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:49:41 GMT From: Ryan Beasley <rbeasley@vmware.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/144013: xf86-input-vmmouse may depend on HAL 0.5.13 or above Message-ID: <201002161949.o1GJnf8X055124@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201002161950.o1GJo2lw007568@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 144013 >Category: ports >Synopsis: xf86-input-vmmouse may depend on HAL 0.5.13 or above >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Feb 16 19:50:02 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ryan Beasley >Release: FreeBSD 8.0 >Organization: VMware, Inc. >Environment: >Description: FreeBSD's xf86-input-vmmouse port includes a VMware mouse probe script, hal-probe-vmmouse. It's installed under /usr/local/libexec/hal/scripts. This script instructs X servers to use the vmmouse driver by setting the input.x11_driver key on VMware mouse devices. The problem is that it uses "hal-set-property --direct" and the "--direct" flag didn't appear until GNOME 2.28/HAL 0.5.13. As a result, if running on a stock FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE install, even though the vmmouse driver is installed, it isn't selected by the X server. This breaks features like auto-ungrab (ie: one cannot ungrab the mouse/keyboard by simply moving the mouse cursor beyond the border of the VM window). >How-To-Repeat: 1. Grab a stock FreeBSD 8.0 VM. 2. Install xf86-input-vmmouse. 3. Launch an X server. 4. Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and observe that the plain "mouse" driver is in use. >Fix: This depends on FreeBSD policy. Either a patch may be applied to the script to remove the --direct flag or the driver may include a runtime dependency on HAL 0.5.13. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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