Mouse issue

Mouse issue

[wisdomlight--- via]

Guix on my MacBook Air 13”

most times of booting the system the mouse goes only up and down.
It is stuck on the right side of the screen and just goes up and down.
The log in window is there and I can access the login box by using the TAB key. Even when logging in  the system does not really works. Need rebooting.
Re boot few times and suddenly the mouse is fine.
Strange

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Re: Mouse issue

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 04:32:30PM +0000, wisdomlight--- via wrote:
> Guix on my MacBook Air 13”
> 
> most times of booting the system the mouse goes only up and down.
> It is stuck on the right side of the screen and just goes up and down.

Ohh I thought I was the only one with that issue.  Are you using a
Macbook too?  I investigated long ago and had patched Guix to enable
debugging for udev.  Maybe it was this patch?

diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index b1eff89ecc..11509aaff3 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -2054,7 +2054,7 @@ item of @var{packages}."
                     (make-static-device-nodes directory))
                   (umask old-umask))
 
-                (let ((pid (fork+exec-command (list udevd))))
+                (let ((pid (fork+exec-command (list udevd "--debug") #:log-file "/var/log/udevd")))
                   ;; Wait until udevd is up and running.  This appears to
                   ;; be needed so that the events triggered below are
                   ;; actually handled.

But why did I set the log-file?  I don’t remember.

Whatever.  Back then I found that only on bad boots the trackpad is
detected as a Mouse and therefore is not treated as a trackpad.

root@florianmacbook /var/log/gdm# cat greeter.log.2 | grep Apple | grep tagged
(II) event4  - Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
(II) event4  - Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
(II) event14 - Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: is tagged by udev as: Mouse
(II) event14 - Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: is tagged by udev as: Mouse
(II) event15 - Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
(II) event15 - Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
root@florianmacbook /var/log/gdm# cat greeter.log.1 | grep Apple | grep tagged
(II) event4  - Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
(II) event4  - Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
(II) event12 - Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
(II) event12 - Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver: is tagged by udev as: Keyboard

I had not investigated further what is responsible for this trackpad
detection.  I suppose there is some difference between the udev setup
used by Guix and the udev setup used by others.

Regards,
Florian

Re: Mouse issue

[Joshua Branson]

wisdomlight--- via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:

I've found using sway fixes any mouse issues that I have.

Thanks,


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