ports/131124: x11/xorg - New xorg 7.4 hangs until mouse is moved when AllowEmptyInput turned off

[Warren Block]

The following reply was made to PR ports/131124; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, xelah-freebsd-pr at xelah.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/131124: x11/xorg - New xorg 7.4 hangs until mouse is moved
 when AllowEmptyInput turned off
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:17:30 -0600 (MDT)

 Submitting this as a followup for future readers:
 
 The cure to this problem--a sticky or draggy mouse pointer--is to not 
 use AllowEmptyInput Off.  It was a temporary cure to a temporary 
 problem, and causes problems of its own now.
 
 The right way to disable autodetection of devices by HAL:
 
 Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
 
 Another option is to build xorg-server with the HAL option disabled.