[PATCH] xorg-server: fix mouse probing

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 1 11:17:12 PDT 2008


On Friday 28 March 2008 03:13 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> As you may have noticed from other threads, xorg-server has problem
> with HAL support (default).  Please test the patch:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/xorg-server.diff
>
> You also have to patch sysutils/hal:
>
> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff
>
> Changes:
> - Do not probe /dev/psm0 as SysMouse if HAL is enabled.
> - Add /dev/ums0 as SysMouse if HAL is disabled.
> - Do not force sysmouse(4) mode unless device is /dev/sysmouse. 
> When moused(8) is not running, current mode level is untouched. -
> Correcly check if moused is actually running.  Checking pid file is
> not enough because it may be /var/run/moused.<device>.pid when it
> is invoked by devd(8) for USB mice.
> - Do not attach device if it is opened by moused.
> - Correctly add device path for HAL.

xorg-server patch is committed:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200804011814.m31IEYXP092593

Thanks for testing!

Jung-uk Kim


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