puzzling X11/mouse problem ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Tue Nov 4 15:25:29 UTC 2014


On 11/04/14 09:09, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:32:34 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> I have had 2 instances in the last 3 days of my mouse locking up
>> requiring a reboot to get it back. I am running XFCE desktop under FBSD
>> 9.3-p3:
> Huh, that works? :-)
>
>
>
>> Anything else needed to help me debug, just/please ask. TIA ....
> HAL/DBUS problem, X configuration, reinstalling X11 drivers
> for input devices... somehow sounds familiar...
>
> Do you get any suspicious entries in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html
>
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html
>
>
>


Here goes:


[root at kabini1, /etc, 8:35:23am] 335 % grep -i mouse /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
[    41.267] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
[    41.338] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 
'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[    41.338] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[    43.429] (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
[    43.445] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so
[    43.462] (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    43.463] (II) Using input driver 'mouse' for 'USB Keyboard'
[    43.463] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
[    43.463] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "USB Keyboard" 
(type: MOUSE, id 6)
[    43.464] (II) USB Keyboard: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse
[222044.088] (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
[root at kabini1, /etc, 8:35:52am] 336 % grep -i mouse /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    32.463] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
[    32.550] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 
'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[    32.550] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[    35.022] (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
[    35.037] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so
[    35.077] (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    35.078] (II) Using input driver 'mouse' for 'USB Keyboard'
[    35.078] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
[    35.078] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "USB Keyboard" 
(type: MOUSE, id 6)
[    35.079] (II) USB Keyboard: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse
[root at kabini1, /etc, 8:36:23am] 337 % grep -i mouse /var/log/dmesg.today
ums1: <Kensington Kensington PilotMouse Laser - 6 Button, class 0/0, rev 
1.10/2.20, addr 3> on usbus4
[root at kabini1, /etc, 8:36:57am] 338 % grep -i mouse 
/var/log/dmesg.yesterday
ums1: <Kensington Kensington PilotMouse Laser - 6 Button, class 0/0, rev 
1.10/2.20, addr 3> on usbus4
[root at kabini1, /etc, 8:37:03am] 339 %

I note the UnloadModule: "mouse" in xorg.0.log.old, although no 
timestamps .... I suspect that may be the problem, but I don't know what 
caused it. pkg doesn't show any new X11/xf86 stuff, si I think I am up 
to date:


[root at kabini1, /etc, 8:37:03am] 339 % pkg version -vIL=
deluge-1.3.10,1                    >   succeeds index (index has 1.3.9,1)
dri-9.1.7_6,2                      >   succeeds index (index has 9.1.7_5,2)
git-2.1.2                          >   succeeds index (index has 2.1.0)
libGL-9.1.7_3                      >   succeeds index (index has 9.1.7_2)
libdrm-2.4.58_1,1                  >   succeeds index (index has 2.4.52_1,1)
libevent2-2.0.21_3                 >   succeeds index (index has 2.0.21_2)
libglapi-9.1.7_2                   >   succeeds index (index has 9.1.7_1)
libmspub01-0.1.1                   >   succeeds index (index has 0.1.0_1)
libreoffice-4.3.2                  >   succeeds index (index has 4.2.5_5)
libxml2-2.9.2_1                    >   succeeds index (index has 2.9.1_1)
libxul-24.8.1                      <   needs updating (index has 31.2.0)
lsof-4.88,8                        >   succeeds index (index has 4.88.g,8)
png-1.5.19                         >   succeeds index (index has 1.5.18)
py27-libxml2-2.9.2                 >   succeeds index (index has 2.9.1)
sudo-1.8.11.p1                     >   succeeds index (index has 
1.8.10.p3_1)
virtualbox-ose-4.3.18              >   succeeds index (index has 4.3.16)
virtualbox-ose-additions-4.3.18    >   succeeds index (index has 4.3.16_1)
virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.3.18         >   succeeds index (index has 4.3.16)
xfce4-wm-4.10.1_1                  >   succeeds index (index has 4.10.1)
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:30:39am] 340 % pkg version -vRL=
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
Updating FreeBSD_new_xorg repository catalogue...
FreeBSD_new_xorg repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
adns-1.4_2                         <   needs updating (remote has 1.5)
db46-4.6.21.4                      ?   orphaned: databases/db46
dbus-1.8.8                         <   needs updating (remote has 1.8.8_1)
desktop-file-utils-0.22_2          <   needs updating (remote has 0.22_3)
gnutls-3.2.19                      <   needs updating (remote has 3.2.19_1)
htop-1.0.2_1                       <   needs updating (remote has 1.0.3)
libcdr-0.0.16_2                    ?   orphaned: graphics/libcdr
libfreehand00-0.0.0                ?   orphaned: graphics/libfreehand00
libmspub-0.0.6_3                   ?   orphaned: print/libmspub
libpurple-2.10.9_7                 <   needs updating (remote has 2.10.10)
libxul-24.8.1                      <   needs updating (remote has 31.2.0)
linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.406  ?   orphaned: www/linux-c6-flashplugin11
linux-c6-openssl-1.0.1e            <   needs updating (remote has 1.0.1e_1)
linux_base-c6-6.5_1                <   needs updating (remote has 6.5_2)
netpbm-10.35.92_1                  <   needs updating (remote has 10.35.94)
pidgin-2.10.9_4                    <   needs updating (remote has 2.10.10)
serf-1.3.7_1                       <   needs updating (remote has 1.3.8)
xf86-video-intel-2.21.15_4         <   needs updating (remote has 2.21.15_5)
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:30:46am] 341 %


Anything else ?

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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