Xorg mouse not working after upgrade (console mouse works)
I had everything (Xorg + console mouse) working perfectly on my 6.3 system with slightly outdated ports. Now I upgraded to 6.4 and the latest ports. I am getting some strange behavior with respect to the mouse. I did adjust some lines of rc.conf in the process of trying to debug the problem (moused used to be enabled and now it's not). I have a run-of-the-mill USB mouse hooked up. In the console (before I type startx), I am able to move the mouse cursor and copy+paste just fine in the console. My rc.conf looks like this (surprisingly, moused is NOT enalbed, and the console mouse DOES WORK FINE): defaultrouter=192.168.0.254 hostname=tweety.i ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES # added by xorg-libraries port local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES When I startx, the mouse cursor won't move. I have nothing currently in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (it's missing). I tried Xorg -configure and copying the output of that to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but no change in behavior. I am also trying to add moused_enable=YES to my rc.conf. Then when I try to start moused, I get the following error: Starting default moused:moused: unable to open /dev/psm0: No such file or directory Had a look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, but cannot decide on what to change in /etc/rc.conf to make X work. I really see no point in starting moused if the console mouse is already working, however. Is that correct? When I generated the xorg.conf with Xorg -configure, I did see this section in the xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Any ideas on how to get mouse to work in X? I had a good look at the Handbook but everything I tried there did not fix the problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg mouse not working after upgrade (console mouse works)
Hi, On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] When I startx, the mouse cursor won't move. I have nothing currently in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (it's missing). I tried Xorg -configure and copying the output of that to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but no change in behavior. [snip] Have a look at ports/UPDATING, 20090124 20090123. I, personally, am not a fan of requiring hald/dbus to enable my mouse. I added the following to my xorg.conf: Section ServerFlags option AutoAddDevicesoff option AllowEmptyInput off EndSection HTH -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg mouse not working after upgrade (console mouse works)
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Nerius Landys wrote: I had everything (Xorg + console mouse) working perfectly on my 6.3 system with slightly outdated ports. Now I upgraded to 6.4 and the latest ports. I am getting some strange behavior with respect to the mouse. I did adjust some lines of rc.conf in the process of trying to debug the problem (moused used to be enabled and now it's not). I have a run-of-the-mill USB mouse hooked up. In the console (before I type startx), I am able to move the mouse cursor and copy+paste just fine in the console. My rc.conf looks like this (surprisingly, moused is NOT enalbed, and the console mouse DOES WORK FINE): But if you check with ps, you'll find moused is running anyway. It gets started so that hotplugging USB mice works. See moused_nondefault_enable in rc.conf(5). Since you have a USB mouse, you might as well add moused_enable=YES to rc.conf. defaultrouter=192.168.0.254 hostname=tweety.i ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 sshd_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES # added by xorg-libraries port local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES When I startx, the mouse cursor won't move. I have nothing currently in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (it's missing). Make sure that there isn't an xorg.conf somewhere else that's being used. /var/log/Xorg.0.log will show for sure: (==) Using config file: /usr/local/lib/X11/xorg.conf I tried Xorg -configure and copying the output of that to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but no change in behavior. That produces an increasingly outdated config file. I am also trying to add moused_enable=YES to my rc.conf. Then when I try to start moused, I get the following error: Starting default moused:moused: unable to open /dev/psm0: No such file or directory Remember that moused is already running, and you may have to kill it before trying to re-run it with /etc/rc.d/moused. Running 6.4 might make a difference, too; I don't know. Had a look in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, but cannot decide on what to change in /etc/rc.conf to make X work. I really see no point in starting moused if the console mouse is already working, however. Is that correct? When I generated the xorg.conf with Xorg -configure, I did see this section in the xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Any ideas on how to get mouse to work in X? I had a good look at the Handbook but everything I tried there did not fix the problem. Enable hal and dbus (and moused) in rc.conf. Make sure all are started and continue running; hal erroring out can be annoying. If you were running without an xorg.conf before, that should be enough. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg mouse not working after upgrade (console mouse works)
Thanks for the tips guys. I had a close look at both suggestions. After further experimentation I found that this line in rc.conf: usbd_enable=YES was causing the mouse pointer not to work in Xorg. Simply removing that line, all works perfectly. So my end-result rc.conf is: defaultrouter=192.168.0.254 hostname=tweety.i ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 sshd_enable=YES # added by xorg-libraries port local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES I found that adding the moused start just adds more confusion, especially because moused is already started automatically because of, I guess, the hald. I just hope I'm not missing out on not having usbd_enable. Kinda confusing stuff, I'm sure it's smoother in 7.x or 8.0. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg mouse not working after upgrade (console mouse works)
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Nerius Landys wrote: Thanks for the tips guys. I had a close look at both suggestions. After further experimentation I found that this line in rc.conf: usbd_enable=YES was causing the mouse pointer not to work in Xorg. Simply removing that line, all works perfectly. Huh. usbd went away at some point around 6.4, so that line shouldn't do anything. I think. So my end-result rc.conf is: defaultrouter=192.168.0.254 hostname=tweety.i ifconfig_em0=inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 sshd_enable=YES # added by xorg-libraries port local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES I found that adding the moused start just adds more confusion, especially because moused is already started automatically because of, I guess, the hald. I just hope I'm not missing out on not having usbd_enable. Kinda confusing stuff, I'm sure it's smoother in 7.x or 8.0. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
