Re: mouse pointer has gone.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin_at_gwdg.de> wrote:

> Am 16.01.2014 15:07, schrieb clutton:
> > Using X, I have a frozen mouse pointer.
> > Mouse works fine from syscons but not from X. Booting from kernel.old
> > resolves the problem.
> >
> > Here is my X log with current kernel.
> >
> > 158:[    34.043] (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
> > 208:[    34.232] (II) config/hal: Adding input device PS/2 Mouse
> > 209:[    34.232] (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
> > 210:[    34.233] (II)
> > Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so
> > 211:[    34.236] (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> > 215:[    34.237] (II) Using input driver 'mouse' for 'PS/2 Mouse'
> > 216:[    34.237] (**) PS/2 Mouse: always reports core events
> > 218:[    34.237] (==) PS/2 Mouse: Protocol: "Auto"
> > 219:[    34.237] (**) PS/2 Mouse: always reports core events
> > 222:[    34.238] (EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device
> > 223:[    34.238] (EE) PreInit returned 2 for "PS/2 Mouse"
> > 224:[    34.238] (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
> >
> >
> > And with kernel.old
> >
> > 158:[    30.743] (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
> > 208:[    30.941] (II) config/hal: Adding input device PS/2 Mouse
> > 209:[    30.941] (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
> > 210:[    30.942] (II)
> > Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so
> > 211:[    30.945] (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> > 215:[    30.946] (II) Using input driver 'mouse' for 'PS/2 Mouse'
> > 216:[    30.946] (**) PS/2 Mouse: always reports core events
> > 217:[    30.946] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> > 218:[    30.946] (==) PS/2 Mouse: Protocol: "Auto"
> > 219:[    30.946] (**) PS/2 Mouse: always reports core events
> > 220:[    30.947] (==) PS/2 Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
> > 221:[    30.947] (**) PS/2 Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
> > 222:[    30.947] (**) PS/2 Mouse: Buttons: 5
> > 224:[    30.947] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2
> > Mouse" (type: MOUSE, id 7)
> > 225:[    30.948] (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
> > 226:[    30.948] (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
> > 227:[    30.948] (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
> > 228:[    30.948] (**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
> > 229:[    30.948] (II) PS/2 Mouse: SetupAuto: hw.iftype is 4, hw.model is
> > 0
> > 230:[    30.948] (II) PS/2 Mouse: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse
> >
>
> For me, it helped to rebuild devel/dbus and sysutils/hal and restart
> that services again.
>
> HTH,
> Rainer
>

sysutils/hal needs rebuilding due to a change in the kernel ABI.  It is NOT
the only port affected by the change and rebuilding all ports is
recommended, but to get the pointer to work only requires a re-built hald.
devel/dbus has no problems.

I can tell you that you need to also rebuild sysutils/tmux, if you use it.
I'll admit to being lazy and have not rebuilt all ports to this point. Only
the two ports mentioned have caused any problems, so far.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman_at_gmail.com