From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 3 12:39:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B70DF106566C for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:39:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B738FC1B for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws7 with SMTP id 7so3672624vws.13 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:39:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Sxv+IRm/4E4vMnhGP2nS0C5lxNmAS+z6Ch2hf7C5f3I=; b=i2n8BEzU4Y21bXsnrnXTHrq8oFGmsIAT8tgu3hI2T7/5GwpWwZSNjJZBJKXLEfRRsh 1N9CXG6d5GEYx6VG3WPy8aZF7dBSFMUu+4yu3LDHkfJTwufIwHVWTgjkDHCyFOqrXDio YQMohGEk9cjrfkfKiSO5F6s8zj0ajhAsG3ucg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=YijNLp2wc87xa8Yjok814CmuRMc4xStaIVdmtE9gbWGUj68R+5zj8GKJPW9l2/qWtp Dc4AZlObRWhCpvE/n+CvnUqjyPLDkq0iuaSrXNjodbYqgHLH4GGy5AMgsQW9hNvoaNWP i44BCbcnMQm+fZP8k7TvymiKu8SFZhmc/+kKs= Received: by 10.220.88.22 with SMTP id y22mr5166509vcl.12.1280839191427; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:39:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (173-161-130-225-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.161.130.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k30sm6797878vbl.9.2010.08.03.05.39.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C580E14.6060904@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:39:48 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <4C572E8D.10002@paz.bz> <4C57386E.7060400@gmail.com> <20100803152134.H34284@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jim Pazarena , Ian Smith , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mouse dies when kdm is triggered X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:39:52 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/3/10 8:25 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Ian Smith wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Warren Block wrote: >> > >> > In today's world, using AllowEmptyInput Off is asking for input >> problems. >> > It's the wrong way to disable hal for input device detection. AEI >> also hates >> > kittens and puppies and will throw garbage on your lawn. >> >> So what's the recipe for the current RIGHT way to disable using hal and >> dbus, configuring xorg.conf appropriately? My Thinkpad T23 running >> 7.2-STABLE and 8.0-RELEASE systems is currently broken, or I could refer >> to how I did it for them, costing quite some research pain at the time. > > Add Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" to the ServerLayout or ServerFlags > section. That prevents xorg from adding hal-detected devices, even if > hal is running. > > The other option is to build xorg-server without hal support: > # cd /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server; make config > > Turn off the HAL option and rebuild/reinstall the port. If you do that, > a reminder comment about it in xorg.conf could be a good idea. Or just > include the AutoAddDevices option anyway; I doubt xorg-server without > hal support would complain about it, but can't recall testing that. > Also note that pgj@ picked up a PR to mention this in the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=147095 Regards, - -- Glen Barber -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMWA4UAAoJEFJPDDeguUajVXkH/1b62sG8tOpkOM0PTCLnoio/ wMzPgJo4VYNRKlvL5tda2UXydPKGlUttWp29SfcTb9dTZ66EzV/7L05U/597y6cy e86Nz/oSY2BW5LcQHMtZyWZcixozHJslbPysnHOCssExNpx89umYNZwCVDUVu4qE h8djKQxdSWjumlhq4iBa1ZQ0PUk6F+yDhFtkdvPuaPo1P0faPoLW70NKxftn0yZz GQtHsrwJ6au3z+S3v7kBoHk4c61aCDGNFS8sqEnLpQSnWKjxPkp+qhY0v4Cd0+FX fP8Y93g/Q3EZeTtHzC42ssJCwvmcFKNJNiSY/UUYUfqxIuUT9OPDRX054uAHZV8= =glf5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----