X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities)

[Coleman Kane]

Coleman Kane wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:54 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>  
>>> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 12:50 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>>    
>>>> I'm trying to get a list of commonalities to better focus my
>>>> troubleshooting.  So far, my two machines that are affected have
>>>> the following in common:
>>>>
>>>> GNOME 2.22 (with hald)
>>>> nVidia graphics card (though different drivers)
>>>> PS/2 mouse
>>>> dual core
>>>> ULE scheduler
>>>>
>>>> My one machine that is not affected differs from this in that it
>>>> has an Intel graphics card, USB mouse, and is not dual core (but
>>>> HTT).
>>>>
>>>> It looks like Coleman has a PS/2 mouse as well.  It's starting to
>>>> look like the mouse technology might have something to do with
>>>> this.  Anyone seeing this problem with a USB mouse?
>>>>       
>>> I think I know why.  Build xorg-server without HAL support option 
>>> and the attached patch.  With HAL support (default) and hald 
>>> running, xorg-server auto-detects individual ports with input.mouse 
>>> capability even without configuration lines in xorg.conf.  If moused 
>>> is enabled and USB mouse is used, /dev/ums0 is directly used because 
>>> there is a problem in MD code (see attached patch).  If moused is 
>>> enabled and PS/2 mouse is used, you end up with two input devices 
>>> via /dev/sysmouse and /dev/psm0.  I couldn't find a cleaner way to 
>>> fix this problem, though. :-(
>>>     
>>
>> Thanks for finding this.  Here is a patch for hal which adds a mouse
>> addon.  The mouse addon polls to find whether or not moused has a given
>> mouse device open.  If it does, it sets the input device to
>> be /dev/sysmouse instead of the actual device.  Hopefully it will fix
>> the problem without needing to disable hal support in X.  I have also
>> merged your gettimeofday patches, jkim.
>>
>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff
>>
>> Joe
> I had to apply the attached change to your patch in order to get it to 
> work (addon/ should be addons/). Attached is the diff to your diff 
> that worked for me.
>
> -- 
> Coleman Kane
Unfortunately, I still experience the same mouse-blocked behavior after 
applying this patch, reinstalling the port, and then restarting my 
machine (and setting the mouse device back to SysMouse and /dev/sysmouse 
in xorg.conf, and re-enabling moused).

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Coleman Kane