From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 30 19:11:48 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 A57CD1065672 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:11:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisa@uvic.ca) Received: from camel.comp.uvic.ca (camel.comp.uvic.ca [142.104.148.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660C68FC15 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:11:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wm3.uvic.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by camel.comp.uvic.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8UJBlqf031039 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:11:47 -0700 Received: from 142.104.193.193 (proxying for 70.69.37.215) (SquirrelMail authenticated user chrisa) by wm3.uvic.ca with HTTP; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:11:47 -0700 Message-ID: <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> References: <1b3000aab88ea400a8a60a56aea835c5.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:11:47 -0700 From: chrisa@uvic.ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-UVic-Spam-Status: No X-UVic-Spam-Score: 0.035 AWL X-UVic-Spam-Level: Spam-Level X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 142.104.148.254 Subject: Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:11:48 -0000 > I had similar troubles with hal. > > The easiest solutions is to get rid of hal. Deinstall it. The xorg-package > you can compile without hal (use make configure and uncheck hal) and it > will work. > > Cheers > herb langhans Thank you. I discovered that compiling all ports on the relevant machine made it compile and start. Isn't it odd that the ones compiled on a slightly different i386 machine didn't? Anyway, the mouse still doesn't work in X, and from what I'm hearing, it's possible to get the mouse to work in X without it, so I am going to get rid of hal. By the way, any ideas on why the mouse input mightn't work in X? It's a usb mouse, but moused in text mode works with it. Cheers.