Xorg 7.4 freezes when not moving the mouse

[Lucius Windschuh]

2009/1/24 Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org>:
> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 20:29 +0100, Lucius Windschuh wrote:
>> 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...
>
> So, I was trying to look at this... That code in the xserver hasn't
> changed in forever.  I'm trying to find someone who can explain to me
> why it does that.  One thing that I find curious is that in the xorg log
> that you showed, the mouse seems to report a lot of serial options.  I
> don't see that in my setup.

Thanks for trying to reproduce this.

> Right now, I'm running with AllowEmptyInput on, so kbd/mouse driver
> configs are ignored.  I'm disabling moused on psm (glidepoint touchpad)
> and configuring it with the "synaptics" driver (which AllowEmptyInput
> won't ignore).  usb mice are added via hal, currently via sysmouse.

I changed my configuration to use xf86-input-synaptics and sysmouse
for USB, because I was too lazy to search for enough documentation on
setting the keyboard options (layout, variant) via hald. It works nice
(patched). :-)

Lucius