Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:04:41 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Effing HAL Message-ID: <6201873e0910291504id12ba4fi1fd4c56bb7d290fb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0910291455y6cee991md9f8c7f2824e54ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <eeef1a4c0910291455y6cee991md9f8c7f2824e54ca@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> wrote: > For Christ's sake. I have an IBM X41 laptop, which was happily running > FreeBSD 7.1. Having a little free time this evening I decided to update it > to 7.2. The upgrade failed miserably so I had to install from scratch. But > that's OK, because I had backed up the machine beforehand. > > The install went through fine (via NFS after PXE boot - no CDROM on this > box). And then I get to X. As this is a minor update I go to use the old > Xorg config which worked fine. No joy. I get the dreaded "No screens found" > error, although the screen is there of course. After trying X -configure > several times, tweaking, etc., I get nowhere slowly. i810 is now just > intel, > but whatever. The screen comes up, but no mouse or keyboard. After yet much > more fiddling and tweaking I finally get to the crux of the problem: > fricking HAL. > > Having installed this from scratch using the X User defaults I might have > expected that something that is now required to get the flipping keyboard > and mouse working would be enabled by the installer. But no, I have to > waste > time on this crap just to get back to where I was before. Oh, and HAL uses > 6MB or so of RAM. Not a lot. But as I already specify the hardware in the > Xorg conf file it is, as far as I can see, an unnecessary waste. > > I thought it would be easy, but no, it's just a pain. It's wasn't > unsolvable, as I have years of fiddling with UNIX and FreeBSD in > particular. > But for effing Christ's sake. > > I know this isn't specifically a FreeBSD problem, HAL being needed by X. > But > the flipping installer should enable it when I selected X flipping User > from > the install options. > > My little upgrade has now turned from a bit of fun into a saga that I don't > want to go through again. > > I had to get this off my chest. It was, as they say, doing my head in. > > MF. > _______________________________________________ > > HAL dependency is a knob in xorg-server port. -- Adam Vande More
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