From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 20 04:05:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB00106566B for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:05:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFFC98FC0A for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-71-245.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.71.245]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C2F3CD6C; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:05:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n9K459at001721; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:05:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:05:09 +0200 From: Polytropon To: herbert langhans Message-Id: <20091020060509.ccdb9b19.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091020021324.GA1983@sandcat> References: <20091019185224.GA10790@desktop> <20091020021324.GA1983@sandcat> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrey Zhidenkov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse and keyboard don't work in Xorg 7.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:05:11 -0000 Allthough X is not an urgent topic to me at the moment (because I'm still running "old" X without all the HAL and DBUS magic), I always interestedly read such threads in order to keep up to date. On my testing system I just had the same problem. XFCE 4 started, but mouse didn't move, no keyboard input. And starting X (startx command) lasts 20 seconds, that's annoying. :-( On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:13:24 +0200, herbert langhans wrote: > If you dont need it for another reason, you can compile > xorg-server without hal (#make config). The packages of X.org seem to require DBUS and HAL. I am currently running a testing environment with 8.0-RC1 and everything from packages (1,7 GHz AMD with 512 MB RAM, so no compiling joy). > Mouse and keyboard works without it too. I just re-read the chapters on X in the handbook. Setting a specific keyboard language (german in my case) now involves messing with XML in the HAL configuration. I'm just keen to know where I now have to set my mouse in order to work properly. It's a three-button mouse from Sun. In the past, all X settings (resolution, mouse, keyboard, fonts etc.) could be controlled via one centralized file. Sadly, this seems to be scattered among many subsystems now... Another question, especially when running without a xorg.conf file: Where is the functionality of Option "DontZap" "false" represented? Or is it possible to run X with a partial xorg.conf file? > This solved all such problems on my laptop. I hope it will solve them for me, too, when I revive my laptop. Seems that I have to do much compiling, bit I will do that on a different machine (laptop is AMD 500 MHt with 256 MB RAM). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...