ports/172924: x11/xorg -- first execution of xinit yields non-working mouse

[Ronald F.Guilmette]

>Number:         172924
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       x11/xorg -- first execution of xinit yields non-working mouse
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 21 09:30:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ronald F. Guilmette
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 amd64
>Organization:
entr0py
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 amd64
System: FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64


>Description:

Upon running xinit the first time (after a reboot) X starts normally, and
a mouse cursor appears on the screen (as normal) but then physically moving
the mouse has no effect.

Exiting X and then running xinit a second time ``cures'' the problem.

This problem has been plaguing me since the early 8.x days, but I'm sorry
to say that I never took the time to file a formal report until now,
because there was always a trivial work-around (i.e. just exit X and run
xinit again).

This bug was never critical before, but I am now working towards trying
to build a box that will boot directly into an X application (xbmc),
so now this _is_ going to cause me serious problems.

This problem may perhaps be related in some way to ports/167654:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=167654

Then again it may perhaps not be.  What do I know?


>How-To-Repeat:

Install FreeBSD... pretty much any release from 8.0-RELEASE up to and
through 9.1-RC2, then install x11/xorg, then run xtint and try moving
your mouse and see all of the pretty non-movement.

>Fix:

I don't know, but I sure do with that somebody who actually knows something
that X internals (which alas, I don't) could take a look at this.
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