From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 17 23:16:29 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D2D1BE; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C89AD862; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp14-2-9-156.lns21.adl2.internode.on.net [14.2.9.156]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r2HNFp56080427 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:45:58 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Subject: Re: What is the Right Way($(D"o(B) to run X? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <201303172224.r2HMOg25013615@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:45:51 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <624366A6-5E01-43CB-8C1A-2E4D595A1F90@dons.net.au> References: <201303172224.r2HMOg25013615@gw.catspoiler.org> To: Don Lewis X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Spam-Score: 1.415 (*) BAYES_00, RDNS_DYNAMIC, SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING, SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, fullermd@over-yonder.net, andrnils@gmail.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:16:29 -0000 On 18/03/2013, at 8:54, Don Lewis wrote: > I don't recall if I disabled hald and changed xorg.conf to point to > /dev/psm0 before I re-enabled moused. I do know that hald is = currently > disabled and nothing obvious seems to be broken in Gnome. >=20 > I haven't had any issues with AllowEmptyInput so I never bothered to > switch over to the preferred AutoAddDevices. This sounds exactly like what I have, although I do find it odd that hal = doesn't manage to open /dev/sysmouse and use that (even if it fails for = /dev/ums* etc). lshal does show a mount device listed with /dev/sysmouse = as the device name. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C