X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Coleman Kane wrote:
> Coleman Kane wrote:
>> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:54 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>>  
>>>> 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. :-(
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Thanks for finding this.  Here is a patch for hal which adds a mouse
>>> addon.  The mouse addon polls to find whether or not moused has a given
>>> mouse device open.  If it does, it sets the input device to
>>> be /dev/sysmouse instead of the actual device.  Hopefully it will fix
>>> the problem without needing to disable hal support in X.  I have also
>>> merged your gettimeofday patches, jkim.
>>>
>>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff
>>>
>>> Joe
>> I had to apply the attached change to your patch in order to get it to 
>> work (addon/ should be addons/). Attached is the diff to your diff 
>> that worked for me.
>>
>> -- 
>> Coleman Kane
> Unfortunately, I still experience the same mouse-blocked behavior after 
> applying this patch, reinstalling the port, and then restarting my 
> machine (and setting the mouse device back to SysMouse and /dev/sysmouse 
> in xorg.conf, and re-enabling moused).

Yeah.  While the addon is doing its job, X now opens two instances of 
/dev/sysmouse :-(.  I still don't know why it does this when it doesn't 
open two instances of /dev/psm0.

Joe

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