[stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote:
>>> This doesn't work for me, I need working hald as I plug and unplug
>>> keyboards and mice each time I take my laptop out of its dock,
>>
>>
>> There might be some hardware thing in your setup that requires hald, but I
>> do manage to hot-connect external USB mice without HAL installed.  One
>> notebook needed moused_enable, but that's all.  Can't recall whether that
>> one even has InputDevice sections in xorg.conf.  I'll post the config in a
>> bit.
>
> Yes, moused is exceptional in that regard, but my main issue is
> attaching/detaching keyboards. Most of my time, I use a PS/2 Model M,
> connected to a laptop dock with a USB<->PS/2 adaptor. I need that when
> I undock, I can use the laptop keyboard, and when I redock, that I get
> back my external keyboard.
>
> I suppose the equivalent to sysmouse/moused is kbdmux, but with hald
> and older Xorg, this did just DTRT.
>
> PS: I just read to the end of the thread, Warren your config looks
> interesting if it can handle hotplugging keyboards. I will give this a
> try this evening, I also want to do some testing to see if the state
> in hald changes between xorg restarts.

A USB keyboard here just worked; kbdmux lets you type on either or both. 
Unfortunately, the notebook does not have a PS2 port*, and I don't have 
a dock for it, so USB is all I can test.


* Yes, I'll happily hot-connect PS2 keyboards and laugh at the danger of 
doing so!  Bwahahaha!