KDE4 and input events stalled
Robert Noland
rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 6 20:40:17 PDT 2009
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:23 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Robert Noland wrote:
> >
> >>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> For example, if I click on a button almost
> >>>> anywhere in the KDE interface (including
> >>>> Seamonkey):
> >>>> - Button down
> >>>> - See button depress
> >>>> - Button up
> >>>> - ?? nothing happens ??
> >>>> - Move mouse
> >>>> - Button up, event occurs
> >
> > Let me guess, you are using Intel graphics?
>
> Ummm... Okay, what do you know that I don't?
>
> I fixed the input problem by setting "AcceptEmptyInput"
> appropriately[1].
>
> Now, I have two other problems I'm trying to
> track down, either of which could be related to
> using Intel graphics:
> * On logout, screen dies (garbage all over).
> /var/log/messages reports that the Xorg server
> died with a segfault; I presume this left the
> graphics card in a bad state. Alt-Ctrl-F1 changes
> the garbage on the screen but doesn't recover the
> screen.
This is definately broken on at least some Intel chips at the moment...
I'm working on it... I find that if I kill X by stopping gdm, things
seem to be ok... Using the logout or reset options in the gnome menus
does bad things...
> * If I start kdm from /etc/ttys, I get a blank
> screen on startup. If I start it from a root
> login, it works okay for the first login.
This sounds more like it is waiting on hal/dbus to start up than
anything. You might try using Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" in place of
or in addition to AllowEmptyInput.
robert.
> Still digging...
>
> Tim
>
> [1] If I understand correctly, "AcceptEmptyInput"
> is now mandatory if you are not using hald and
> forbidden if you are. Is there a reason for
> the Xorg server not to set it automatically?
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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