xorg loops

[Sean C. Farley]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Robert Noland wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 15:39 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
>>
>>> Use moused... I've seen this with some of my mice lately... I don't
>>> know the input driver stuff well enough to really chase it down
>>> without wasting a lot of time that is better spent on other things.
>>> My experience was that it either happened right after X startup, or it
>>> would be fine.  I think maybe the bug is in the psm driver in the
>>> kernel, but I'm not certain.
>>
>> For another point of interest, after the xserver (and xf86-input-mouse)
>> updates to 1.6, my laptop's GlidePointPS/2 is no longer detected as
>> such.  It uses vanilla PS/2 for it.  I do not use hal nor moused.  This
>> is with RELENG_7, so it is not just CURRENT with the problem.
>
> There were no changes to the mouse driver.  Only difference is that the
> os-support routines now only live in the mouse driver.  So that is where
> to go looking for trouble.
>
> robert.

While the mouse driver is patched, I do not see where XPS2_SUPPORT is 
actually set anywhere in the build.

Defining it allows the driver to detect my mouse.  Actually, before the 
patch it would not even let me set it to GlidePointPS/2.

Sean
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