Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:22:02 -0800 (PST) From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: R: Setting up xorg, the quick and dirty method (was "Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool") Message-ID: <1325211722.58257.YahooMailClassic@web113507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112291845510.37293@wonkity.com>
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Hi Warren; --- Gio 29/12/11, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> ha scritto: ... > > > > Unfortunately this is usually not enough. In the > > case of VirtualBox, you have to check this: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox > > What more did you have to do? > > Installing xorg and enabling/starting dbus and hal is all I > did on a > fresh install of 9.0-RC3 amd64 in VirtualBox just now. > TBH, at the time there had been some USB changes and the instructions to setup hal were not up to date. I recall the worst of all was having to *type* the configuration files. It simply didn't work and I eventually gave up on setting up the i386 test VM: I do everything on the native amd64 partition anyways. > > The HAL part is not at all obvious and it is not > > fun to have to check this stuff on the web. > > It is in the Handbook X11 config section. Or you can > turn off > AutoAddDevices in xorg.conf and hal is not needed. > That's also in the > Handbook X11 config section. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > Nice. If I ever do it on my own again I will try it :). Pedro.
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