usb mouse issue

[Donald Allen]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:

> >> Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Sunday 26 September 2010 13:51:14 Donald Allen wrote:
> >> > I am running 8.1 RELEASE on a Thinkpad X61. I have a wired Microsoft
> usb
> >> > mouse plugged into it. I have hal and dbus running, and when I start
> X,
> >> > everything is fine. However, if I shut down the X server and restart
> it
> >> > (via startx), the mouse no longer works, but the laptop's trackpoint
> >> > device does work. If I unplug and re-plug the mouse, it now works.
> Again,
> >> > as with my report on the usb disks, neither Linux nor OpenBSD exhibit
> >> this
> >> > behavior on this hardware.
>
>
> I am quite happy with X server compiled WITHOUT_HAL=true. While I can't
> hotplug my USB mouse (I am using a Sony Vaio laptop with internal
> touchpad) the good thing is that once I plug it in before X server
> starts I can freely unplug and re-plug it again as necessary.
>
> Can you try that to figure out wheter it's really a HAL issue
> as suggested by HPS?
>

I will, but it won't be for a week or so.

/Don

>
> //Marcin
>
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