freebsd stable - Jul 2014 - Mouse does not work with new Xorg, works with old Xorg (9.3-STABLE)

Yup, me again with another new xorg issue I am afraid. In this case
its a lot more simple though - everything works, except for
the mouse. The mouse is fine in the conosle but as soon as I start X it
moves the mouse to the centre of th screen and it stops moving.

I have moused disabled, and hald and dbus enabled - the config
which works on my other machine runnign new_xorg. The kernel
has vt and kbdmux compiled into it, but is otherwise generic.

This is using the nex_xorg pkg repository. If I just
use the default pkg repository all works fine.

Hopefully this is a quick fix, but it puzzles me as the config
is the same as the machine I am typing this on. I didnt think
new-xorg affected the mouse drivers actually.

-pete.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Pete French <petefrench at
ingresso.co.uk>
wrote:
> Yup, me again with another new xorg issue I am afraid. In this case
> its a lot more simple though - everything works, except for
> the mouse. The mouse is fine in the conosle but as soon as I start X it
> moves the mouse to the centre of th screen and it stops moving.
>
> I have moused disabled, and hald and dbus enabled - the config
> which works on my other machine runnign new_xorg. The kernel
> has vt and kbdmux compiled into it, but is otherwise generic.
>
> This is using the nex_xorg pkg repository. If I just
> use the default pkg repository all works fine.
>
> Hopefully this is a quick fix, but it puzzles me as the config
> is the same as the machine I am typing this on. I didnt think
> new-xorg affected the mouse drivers actually.
>
> -pete.
>
I'm having similar problems. But I have option devd for autoconfig. Anyway,
I solved it by having the slim-script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d kill moused (
as even if you have moused="NO" in rc.conf devd autoruns moused on
usb-attach, which leads to umsX being busy when xorg tries to open them ).

I also had to have usbconfig power_off and power_on my lenovo usb-keyboad
with trackpoint mouse as the mouse is not recognised on boot.

Best regards
Andreas

On 22 July 2014 16:33, Pete French <petefrench at ingresso.co.uk>
wrote:
> I have moused disabled, and hald and dbus enabled - the config
> which works on my other machine runnign new_xorg. The kernel
> has vt and kbdmux compiled into it, but is otherwise generic.
Did you rebuild/update hald? That did the trick for me.

-- 
If you can't see the forest for the trees,
Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.

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On 07/22/2014 07:33, Pete French wrote:
> Yup, me again with another new xorg issue I am afraid. In this
> case its a lot more simple though - everything works, except for 
> the mouse. The mouse is fine in the conosle but as soon as I start
> X it moves the mouse to the centre of th screen and it stops
> moving.
> 
> I have moused disabled, and hald and dbus enabled - the config 
> which works on my other machine runnign new_xorg. The kernel has vt
> and kbdmux compiled into it, but is otherwise generic.
> 
> This is using the nex_xorg pkg repository. If I just use the
> default pkg repository all works fine.
> 
> Hopefully this is a quick fix, but it puzzles me as the config is
> the same as the machine I am typing this on. I didnt think new-xorg
> affected the mouse drivers actually.
Kill moused before starting X and your mouse will work.

I'm not sure why that works, but I started investigating and I think it
had something to do with what hald reports as the mouse device.

Also moused_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf seems to do nothing since
devd picks it up.   That's probably a bug since quietstart seems to be
ignoring the rc.conf entry.


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