[PATCH] xorg-server: fix mouse probing

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Mar 31 09:28:16 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:25 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> 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?

I have one such system (USB mouse), but I will not be able to test until
tomorrow.

Joe

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