usb mouse issue

[Donald Allen]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:
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>> >> Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net
>> >wrote:
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>> >> On Sunday 26 September 2010 13:51:14 Donald Allen wrote:
>> >> > I am running 8.1 RELEASE on a Thinkpad X61. I have a wired Microsoft
>> usb
>> >> > mouse plugged into it. I have hal and dbus running, and when I start
>> X,
>> >> > everything is fine. However, if I shut down the X server and restart
>> it
>> >> > (via startx), the mouse no longer works, but the laptop's trackpoint
>> >> > device does work. If I unplug and re-plug the mouse, it now works.
>> Again,
>> >> > as with my report on the usb disks, neither Linux nor OpenBSD exhibit
>> >> this
>> >> > behavior on this hardware.
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>> I am quite happy with X server compiled WITHOUT_HAL=true. While I can't
>> hotplug my USB mouse (I am using a Sony Vaio laptop with internal
>> touchpad) the good thing is that once I plug it in before X server
>> starts I can freely unplug and re-plug it again as necessary.
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>> Can you try that to figure out wheter it's really a HAL issue
>> as suggested by HPS?
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> I will, but it won't be for a week or so.
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I'm sorry, but I won't be doing this. I've again (third try in two years)
just run into too many problems with FreeBSD and have reinstalled Slackware.

Thanks for trying to help --

/Don

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> /Don
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>> //Marcin
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