X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities)

[Coleman Kane]

Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:18 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>   
>>> From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org>
>>> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:07 -0400
>>> Sender: owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
>>>
>>> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 12:50 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'm trying to get a list of commonalities to better focus my
>>>> troubleshooting.  So far, my two machines that are affected
>>>> have the following in common:
>>>>
>>>> GNOME 2.22 (with hald)
>>>> nVidia graphics card (though different drivers)
>>>> PS/2 mouse
>>>> dual core
>>>> ULE scheduler
>>>>
>>>> My one machine that is not affected differs from this in that
>>>> it has an Intel graphics card, USB mouse, and is not dual core
>>>> (but HTT).
>>>>
>>>> It looks like Coleman has a PS/2 mouse as well.  It's starting
>>>> to look like the mouse technology might have something to do
>>>> with this.  Anyone seeing this problem with a USB mouse?
>>>>         
>>> I think I know why.  Build xorg-server without HAL support option
>>> and the attached patch.  With HAL support (default) and hald
>>> running, xorg-server auto-detects individual ports with
>>> input.mouse capability even without configuration lines in
>>> xorg.conf.  If moused is enabled and USB mouse is used, /dev/ums0
>>> is directly used because there is a problem in MD code (see
>>> attached patch).  If moused is enabled and PS/2 mouse is used,
>>> you end up with two input devices
>>> via /dev/sysmouse and /dev/psm0.  I couldn't find a cleaner way
>>> to fix this problem, though. :-(
>>>
>>> Jung-uk Kim
>>>       
>> So this explains the problem, but it still means that, if it is not
>> fixed, I can't run hald...and I want to run hald. I'm trying to
>> think of a way around it, but it's not obvious. Any answer is
>> probably not going to be clean as people might like, either.
>>     
>
> moused + hald + xorg-server runs just fine if you build xorg-server 
> without HAL support.  I am using it on two machines now. :-)
>
> Jung-uk Kim
>   
What do you lose by compiling X.org WITHOUT_HAL?

--
Coleman