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[76.182.104.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o10sm5435193anm.1.2012.06.07.11.59.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3W7bdK53RRz2CG4F for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 14:59:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 14:59:01 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20120607145901.3022770d@scorpio> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlThrrk9DOWRCHwqjmIUGe34SOJNStNsNVzGqfzfk2Zva+6vhz/Tp8Ii6zvqM/HC2zSwiLA Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:59:07 -0000 On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:17:42 +0200 C. P. Ghost articulated: >On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:14 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Walter Hurry >> wrote: >>> Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite >>> new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost >>> everything in FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I >>> cannot get the (USB) mouse to work. >> >> IMHO, you've hit the same problem as this: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-May/241148.html > >Sorry, I forgot to add the original mail: > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-May/241042.html > >> Unfortunately, there was no follow-up, and nobody seems >> to have enough skills to fix hald. HAL is now deprecated on GNU/Linux systems, with functionality being merged into udev as of 2008–2010. Why would anyone try to resurrect a dead application. As of 2011, GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, and projects such as KDE, GNOME and X.org are in the process of deprecating HAL as it has "become a large monolithic unmaintainable mess". -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________