Re: Bug#736765: USB mouse attach event not processed
On 14/02/2014 02:02, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
>>> I hadn't any problems with HAL yet on kfreebsd-10, though I'm not
>>> hot-plugging anything.
>>
>> One could say this is not a great achievement on HAL's part, considering its only
>> purpose when it comes to X is hot-plugging ;-)
>
> Oh. Didn't know it would work without HAL, unless I manually configured
> it in xorg.conf (which I haven't).
Before HAL existed, we supported USB mice too (via debconf IIRC). Just not hotplugging.
>> Can you reproduce #736765 ?
>
> I'll try when I get a chance to reboot. (Probably tomorrow).
You can recover without reboot, simply switch to VT0 and then back to VT7. The keyboard
is ignored by X but not by syscons.
>> It's just that X needs to know it's using a backend for device autoconfig. If it's not HAL,
>> then whatever else.
>
> But the first one doesn't make sense, like a typo:
>
> +--- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c
> ++++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c
> +@@ -1376,15 +1376,17 @@
> +-#if defined(CONFIG_HAL) || defined(CONFIG_UDEV) || defined(CONFIG_WSCONS)
> ++#if defined(CONFIG_HAL) || defined(CONFIG_UDEV) ||
> defined(CONFIG_WSCONS) || defined(CONFIG_HAL)
Yes. I had noted this. It's fixed in the latest patch I've sent (earlier versions had a
workaround).
--
Robert Millan
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