Re: xorg loops

From: Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:18:15 -0500
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 15:39 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:37 +0200, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> Using 8 current from time to time I have an xorg problem.
> >>
> >> Getting millions of those messages
> >>
> >> (II) Mouse autoprobe: Changing protocol to ExplorerPS/2
> >> (II) Mouse autoprobe: Changing protocol to ImPS/2
> >>
> >> the system is unusable. No response from keyboard or mouse any more.
> >>
> >> Any idea, what I can do to prevent this from happining?
> >
> > Use moused... I've seen this with some of my mice lately... I don't 
> > know the input driver stuff well enough to really chase it down 
> > without wasting a lot of time that is better spent on other things. 
> > My experience was that it either happened right after X startup, or it 
> > would be fine.  I think maybe the bug is in the psm driver in the 
> > kernel, but I'm not certain.
> 
> For another point of interest, after the xserver (and xf86-input-mouse) 
> updates to 1.6, my laptop's GlidePointPS/2 is no longer detected as 
> such.  It uses vanilla PS/2 for it.  I do not use hal nor moused.  This 
> is with RELENG_7, so it is not just CURRENT with the problem.

There were no changes to the mouse driver.  Only difference is that the
os-support routines now only live in the mouse driver.  So that is where
to go looking for trouble.

robert.

> Sean
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Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD

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