xorg loops

[Robert Noland]

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 19:53 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> 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.

I remember messing with that after the last upgrade, when I was trying
to deal with mice issues.  jkim@ said something about it only being
supported on more recent platforms.

robert.

> 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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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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