X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities)
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 27 09:56:59 PDT 2008
Coleman Kane wrote:
> 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).
Yeah. While the addon is doing its job, X now opens two instances of
/dev/sysmouse :-(. I still don't know why it does this when it doesn't
open two instances of /dev/psm0.
Joe
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