On 17 Mar, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Daniel O'Connor <dar...@dons.net.au> wrote: > >> >> On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fulle...@over-yonder.net> >> wrote: >> > However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding >> > the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it >> > show up working, but that's annoying and stupid (and not an option on >> > other systems with e.g. PS/2 meece). I wound up sticking the "other >> > half" of that oft-cargo-culted incantation: >> > >> > Section "ServerFlags" >> > Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" >> > EndSection >> > >> > in my config, and it's worked OK since. 's probably worth a try... >> >> >> Yeah, that does work too. It's just annoying it's necessary :) >> > > Sure is. One thing that also comes to mind is moused. Do you have it > running? I seem to remember having weird troubles when moused wasn't > running.
I ran into this problem a while back. The problem turned out to be that moused was exclusively opening /dev/psm0 before hald so that hald was unable open it. This happened first on my laptop, and I just disabled moused and everything seemed to work except that the trackpad no longer worked in console mode. I tried the same thing later when my primary desktop broke and it sort of worked. The problem that I ran into was that Xorg would occasionally wedge and spam its log with messages about problems with detecting the mouse protocol. Even worse, I found that my KVM switch would very reliably trigger this problem. After much hair pulling, I eventually re-enabled moused and added this to xorg.conf: Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Off" so that it would obey this mouse configuration section: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection I don't recall if I disabled hald and changed xorg.conf to point to /dev/psm0 before I re-enabled moused. I do know that hald is currently disabled and nothing obvious seems to be broken in Gnome. I haven't had any issues with AllowEmptyInput so I never bothered to switch over to the preferred AutoAddDevices. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"