freebsd stable - Jun 2010 - Mouse appears on screen but does not move

Okay,
    THe mouse is working well enough.  I changed my label in
    ports-supfile to tag=.  which I found in documentation as
    applicable to ports supfiles.  Is this different from source
    supfiles where "." means CURRENT release.  

    Anyhow, after portupgrade -a, I tried xdm with 'AllowEmptyInput'
    'off' and both mouse and keyboard worked.  Then I changed to
    'AutoAddDevices' 'off' and the mouse worked as well.

'AutoAddDevices' 'off' :

(**) Mouse0:
    ZAxisMapping: buttons 4, 5, 6 and 7 (**) Mouse0: Buttons: 11
(**) Mouse0: Sensitivity: 1
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Mouse0: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Mouse0: (accel) acceleration profile 0
(II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: hw.iftype is 4, hw.model is 0
(II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "XkbRules" "base"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "base"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)
(END) 

'AllowEmptyInput' 'off':

(**) Option "Protocol" "auto"
(**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/sysmouse"
(**) Mouse0: Protocol: "auto"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
(==) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
(**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4, 5, 6 and 7
(**) Mouse0: Buttons: 11
(**) Mouse0: Sensitivity: 1
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Mouse0: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Mouse0: (accel) acceleration profile 0
(II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: hw.iftype is 4, hw.model is 0
(II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse

I will be sorting 'hardware access layer' issues for myself soon.
Thanks for all your help.  The problem was the mismatched version
numbers.  This, no doubt, has prevented alot of other mismatches from
popping up.
-Nate Maier

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:54:41AM -0500, Nathan Peet Maier
wrote:
>     I changed my label in ports-supfile to tag=.  which I found in
>     documentation as applicable to ports supfiles.  Is this different
>     from source supfiles where "." means CURRENT release.  
Correct.  The tag= line for ports should always be . (period, indicating
HEAD), while for src it should be whatever tag/release you want to run
(RELENG_8_0 for 8.0-RELEASE, RELENG_8 for -STABLE (soon to be 8.1), or .
for -CURRENT/HEAD).

If you messed with any of the tag= lines in your supfiles, you should
examine the contents of /var/db/sup and ensure what's in there matches
what you're actually using.

I can't help with your X/mouse issues.

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Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> The tag= line for ports should always be . (period, indicating
> HEAD) ...
"always" is a bit too strong here IMO.  The tag= line for ports
could reasonably be a release label, if the intent is to retrieve
the ports tree as of that release; granted this would be an uncommon
situation.