X pausing until mouse move (collecting commonalities)

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:35:58 -0400
> 
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:18 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org>
> > > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:07 -0400
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
> > >
> > > 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. :-(
> > >
> > > Jung-uk Kim
> >
> > So this explains the problem, but it still means that, if it is not
> > fixed, I can't run hald...and I want to run hald. I'm trying to
> > think of a way around it, but it's not obvious. Any answer is
> > probably not going to be clean as people might like, either.
> 
> moused + hald + xorg-server runs just fine if you build xorg-server 
> without HAL support.  I am using it on two machines now. :-)

Thanks a lot! The re-built xorg-server seems to take care of it and I
have re-enabled hald on my systems.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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