Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 13:32:01 +0200 From: Harald Weis <hawei@free.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance and mouse problems Message-ID: <20120501113201.GA2872@pollux.local.net> In-Reply-To: <4F9EAD87.2000005@dichotomia.fr> References: <20120427161316.GA60361@pcjas.obspm.fr> <CA%2BtpaK2fLYgwqXFj%2B0qjyNGy2UPiOq=v2=XYLjT2GCMJKHMCng@mail.gmail.com> <20120428205201.GB65903@pcjas.obspm.fr> <4F9C75F9.9070907@dichotomia.fr> <20120430113910.GC74076@pcjas.obspm.fr> <4F9EAD87.2000005@dichotomia.fr>
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:19:35PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > Short answer : I am a proud member of the "HAL and DBus are evil" group. > Middle answer : HAL and DBus were made, maintained and tuned with pretty > much nothing but Linux in mind. As a result they hardly play well with > other OS, and will tend to play worse as the time goes by. In fact > general opinion is that HAL never truly worked under Linux either, it is > now officially deprecated. I fully agree and propose a slightly longer answer « by example » because I just got rid of hald and dbus, and I am very happy with the following configurations for both my desktop and laptop machines. /boot/loader.conf on both: -- ums_load="YES" -- rc.conf on desktop: # Note that moused_enable is set to NO # by /etc/default/rc.conf ! -- keymap="us.iso" # Next line required after switching locale from iso-8859-15 to utf-8 scrnmap="us-ascii_to_cp437" # See rc.conf(5) and /etc/default/rc.conf # for default and non-default moused settings. # moused_ums0_flags="-a 0.3" # decelerate Labtec mouse -- rc.conf on laptop: -- keymap="fr.iso.acc" # Next line required after switching locale from iso-8859-15 to utf-8 scrnmap="us-ascii_to_cp437" # See rc.conf(5) and /etc/default/rc.conf # for default and non-default moused settings. # moused_enable="YES" # touchpad on laptops moused_flags="-3" moused_ums0_flags="" # non-default moused -- xorg.conf on both: -- Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection -- The following configures the keyboard map under X with the option for typing all sorts of non-ascii characters. .xinitrc on desktop: -- setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -option compose:ralt -- .xinitrc on laptop: -- setxkbmap -model pc102 -layout fr -option compose:menu -- That works on 8.2-RELEASE-p3. -- Harald Weis
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