Xorg 7.4 freezes when not moving the mouse

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 12:12:26 PST 2009


On 1/24/09, Lucius Windschuh <lwindschuh at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul.
>
> 2009/1/24 Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>:
>> Xorg is compiled with hald support and hald is enabled?
>
> HAL support is activated (in x11-servers/xorg-server) and X reports:
>   (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard
> So it should use hald.
>
>> moused is working fine for me, only if I add `Option
>> "AllowEmptyInput"       "0"` to xorg.conf,
>> and that one is documented in UPDATING.
>> Without it and without hald running mouse and keyboard where not
>> working at all and Xorg even managed to suspend freebsd.
>
> That's also true here (except the suspend, which doesn't work at all). I
> have
>   Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> in my xorg.conf, which is identical.

If you use hald(and hald support is compiled for Xorg) than that
option must be 'on'

>
> I enabled the Synaptics support in psm(4). But this shouldn't
> influence moused...
> And I didn't test Xorg 7.4 on a FreeBSD 7.x, only on -CURRENT. :-/
> But the issue itself remains the same: X shouldn't clear O_NONBLOCK...
>
> Lucius
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Paul


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