[PATCH] xorg-server: fix mouse probing

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 31 09:25:19 PDT 2008


On Monday 31 March 2008 12:14 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:13 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > As you may have noticed from other threads, xorg-server has
> > problem with HAL support (default).  Please test the patch:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/xorg-server.diff
> >
> > You also have to patch sysutils/hal:
> >
> > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff
> >
> > Changes:
> > - Do not probe /dev/psm0 as SysMouse if HAL is enabled.
> > - Add /dev/ums0 as SysMouse if HAL is disabled.
> > - Do not force sysmouse(4) mode unless device is /dev/sysmouse. 
> > When moused(8) is not running, current mode level is untouched. -
> > Correcly check if moused is actually running.  Checking pid file
> > is not enough because it may be /var/run/moused.<device>.pid when
> > it is invoked by devd(8) for USB mice.
> > - Do not attach device if it is opened by moused.
> > - Correctly add device path for HAL.
>
> If you're waiting for some success reports, all is well on my two
> previously affected systems with these patches.

Actually I was waiting for regression test reports for non-affected 
systems as I have tested on two affected systems.  Can anyone 
confirm?

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim


More information about the freebsd-x11 mailing list