From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 08:55:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19FD1065673 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBB68FC17 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (unknown [92.116.12.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF36F8A0129; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:54:46 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <49929246.8040803@bsdforen.de> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:54:30 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090110) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Eighner References: <49912C77.8060504@bsdforen.de> <20090210015442.S2455@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> In-Reply-To: <20090210015442.S2455@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tom Mende , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg hal dbus X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:55:16 -0000 Lars Eighner wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >>> 1. Add Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" to your ServerLayout section. >>> This will cause X to use the configured kbd, mouse, and vmmouse >>> sections from your xorg.conf >>> >>> 2. Don't use moused. If you want it to work with addon usb mice >>> set this in rc.conf: >>> >>> moused_enable="NO" >>> moused_nondefault_enable="NO" >> >> This is a) outdated and b) those are options. That means you do >> one of them, not both. >> >>> I'm working on fixing hald or the mouse driver or both. >>> >>> After restoring my old xorg.conf and commenting out the RgbPath line, I >>> added "AllowEmptyInput" "off" to the xorg.conf server layout section and >>> disabled moused in rc.conf as per above. >> >> Don't disable moused. >> >>> Now on issuing startx I get a >>> message saying the "AllowEmptyInput" line can't be parsed. Where should >>> this line go?? From the context I assumed it should go into xorg.conf, >>> but if not, where?? >> >> It goes into the xorg.conf. The question is just where did you put it? >> This is how it looks and works on my system: >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" >> EndSection > > > Is "ServerFlags" different from "ServerLayout"? I followed the > instructions > in UPDATING which seemed to me to indicate the section was "ServerLayout" > --- after it became clear that the later UPDATING about it being fixed was > somewhat overly optimistic. Someone suggested the mouse problem could be > fixed by deleting a file in hal, but did not specify which file. Evidently > hal not only kills the mouse, but kills using the numeric key pad for a > mouse (or perhaps kills most of the keyboard --- enough of the keyboard was > left that I could switch to a text-mode virtual terminal and kill xorg. > I did the update before any of this showed up in UPDATING and I fixed the problems by reading the xorg.conf manual page. According to it AllowEmptyInput belongs into the ServerFlags section.