Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:07:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd mouse issue with new xorg-server
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204281903260.3098@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204280659070.35050@wonkity.com>
References:  <CAN6yY1sGJV4sbjbJZ_qwhwhmGewnb_AuAKkDCwCvTJAAU1vPHw@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204281012490.3063@localhost> <201204280537.42277.lumiwa@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204280659070.35050@wonkity.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, the wise Warren Block wrote:

> It should be possible to make that the sole entry in xorg.conf:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
> EndSection
>
> Defaults will be used for the rest.  (I have not tried this, though.)

Removing the lines about input devices results in not starting at all (no 
screens found).

> Another option which people seem to miss is to just build xorg-server 
> with the HAL option disabled.  At least for xfce, HAL is not required 
> and provides no benefits, so why run it?

Hal is required for a lot of applications. I have a scanner which uses 
xsane to scan, and this requires hal.

Regards,
Marco

-- 
We had it tough ... I had to get up at 9 o'clock at night, half an
hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of dry poison, work 29 hours down
mill, and when we came home our Dad would kill us, and dance about on
our grave singing Hallelujah ...
 		-- Monty Python



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?alpine.BSF.2.00.1204281903260.3098>