[kde-freebsd] hal-0.5.11.r2_4 does not play nice with /usr/sbin/moused

[Martin Wilke]

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:03:23AM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> After upgrading to hal-0.5.11.r2_4 (which was committed as part of the recent 
> Gnome upgrade) my xwindows experience started behaving very oddly. If I 
> clicked a titlebar to move a window, it would shutter. I would type in a 
> konsole (I use KDE 3.5.8) and the type wouldn't appear until I moved the 
> mouse.
> 
> With some googling, I found some people having problems with HAL hotplugging 
> and xorg. I found myself wondering if the problem might be HAL's interaction 
> with xorg and my mouse. Through experimentation I found that if I killed the 
> moused, and then started x, the problem vanished.
> 
> Anyways, not sure if this is worth raising a PR about, but I wanted the 
> two "big" desktop communities to know. A note in /usr/ports/UPDATING might be 
> prudent.

Hi,

Right it's a hal problem,
here is a patch what fix this problem
http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/hal.diff

the complett discussion can you find here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2008-March/006210.html

Thanks Martin

> 
> Cheers,
> Dwayne MacKinnon 
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