kde & kdm & mouse

[Vittorio De Martino]

Alle 06:32, domenica 15 maggio 2005, Doug White ha scritto:
> On Sun, 15 May 2005, Vittorio De Martino wrote:
> > I have the latest installation of freebsd 5.4 on my laptop, kde & kdm
> > 3.4. The laptop has a synaptic mousepad endowed of two buttons that in
> > normal conditions are not used at all being enough to double-hit on the
> > pad to have the same effect as that of pressing the left button.
> > Now at boot time I  enabled moused
> >
> > # ps ax|grep moused
> >   493  ??  Ss     0:00.54 /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto
> >
> > And the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > ................................................
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Mouse0"
> >         Driver      "mouse"
> >         Option      "Protocol" "Auto"
> >         Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> >         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > EndSection
> > .................................................
> >
> > Now it happens that:
> >
> > 1) If I start kde as a user by means of the command startx (having put
> > startkde into .xinitrc) the mouse(-pad) works as expected: I can move
> > around the screen and select and launch programs just moving on the pad
> > and double hitting the pad . No problems! In a nutshell no need to press
> > the left button.
> >
> > 2) If at boot time I start kde by means of kdm having put in /etc/ttys:
> > ttyv8   "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on  secure
> >
> > and modified /etc/pam.d as required to autologin, I immediatedly and
> > automagically login into kde as a user and the mouse works BUT... with
> > the pad I can only move around the screen and the double-hit doesn't work
> > anymore so that I have to use the left button cumpulsorily (and
> > annoyingly).
> >
> > Why in your opinion is that crazy behavior and what should I do?
>
> Are the startx-launched and kdm-launched X daemons using the same config
> file? Check the top of /var/log/Xorg.*.log for sure. If you ran
> "X -configure" at some point it might be using a config out of your home
> directory and not in one of the system locations.  When kdm starts it it
> doesn't look in your homedir :)

Absolutely the same config files!. Here the extract from the kdm-related  
Xorg.0.log:

(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Xorg Configured"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) |   |-->Device "Card0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc101"

and ahead

**) Option "Protocol" "Auto"
(**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/sysmouse"
(**) Mouse0: Protocol: "Auto"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
(==) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Mouse0: Buttons: 5
...............................
(II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: hw.iftype is 4, hw.model is 0
(II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse