From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 03:14:33 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7163E40C for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 03:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32ADD21E0 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 03:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-69-249.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.69.249]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F260248C6; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 05:14:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s6M3ENok002302; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 05:14:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 05:14:23 +0200 From: Polytropon To: David Benfell Subject: Re: All of a sudden, problems with X Message-Id: <20140722051423.0cf369b9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140722024643.GA29536@munich.parts-unknown.org> References: <20140722024643.GA29536@munich.parts-unknown.org> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 03:14:33 -0000 On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:46:43 -0700, David Benfell wrote: > Now I've rebooted and I can't get Xorg working properly at all. Did you perform any updates? > Xorg -configure yields only a black (apparently not blank) screen. I > tried adding the magic to allow CTRL/ALT/BACKSPACE but it doesn't > work (yes, I rebooted after adding the magic). There currently are two magics for that: The "magic in xorg.conf" when using X without HAL, and the "magic with XML" involving the configuration files scattered across /usr/local/ when using HAL. Do you use X with or without HAL? If with, is everything running? > The only way out of the > black screen is CTRL/ALT/DEL, which reboots the system. This key combination usually does _nothing_ when within X, so if it works, it seems to suggest that you have exited X, you're back at the text mode console, but you can't see it (blank screen). > If I use startx, I get a correct display, but the mouse doesn't work. Often a problem related to HAL. Make sure you exactly follow the handbook in getting the input working. In case you have updated X, also update its "input" components. > I actually have two of them. This is a notebook system, so one is the > touchpad and the second is a Kensington trackball. The touchpad is probably represented as a PS/2 mouse (check "dmesg" output for "psm0"), and I assume the trackball is connected to USB, so it should be detected automatically. > psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 > psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 This probably is your laptop's glidepad. > ums0: on usbus0 > ums0: 4 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0 And this is the trackball. >From the X log, those are disappointing: > [ 544.688] (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" > [ 544.688] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. > [ 544.688] (WW) Disabling Mouse0 > [ 544.688] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 > [ 546.330] > [ 546.330] > Xorg detected your mouse at device /dev/sysmouse. > Please check your config if the mouse is still not > operational, as by default Xorg tries to autodetect > the protocol. > [ 546.330] Again, check with the handbook's section about X configuration. You probably have a problem with HAL. Many people seem to have. :-) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...