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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:04:48 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 Now Available
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401111554380.57291@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <0AD1CEB5-3291-43F7-B41E-2517A9DDE114@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2014, Mark Felder wrote:

>
> On Jan 11, 2014, at 14:58, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 11 Jan 2014, Mark Felder wrote:
>>
>>> FreeBSD's use of HAL for Xorg is a lazy emulation of how Linux does it.
>>> The right way is to hook devd directly, which is what the DEVD option
>>> does. Try it -- you'll be surprised how much more reliable it is.
>>
>> Or just disable X hotplug device detection with Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off".  I have this off, and can still attach extra keyboards and mice and have them work.
>
> That's interesting. I've never been able to do that with AutoAddDevices being Off. Instead, it only accepts the inputs that were there when you start X and if they are disconnected for any reason you're kind of screwed...

It will probably only work with USB devices.  kbdmux handles the 
keyboards, and... devd handles the mice, I suppose.

Hmm.  It does not seem to matter which way AutoAddDevices is set, 
plugging in an additional mouse results in both being able to move the 
pointer.  Note that I am using xfce and do not even have HAL installed.



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