From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 30 19:20:30 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 3F22C10656A9 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:20:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f171.google.com (mail-yx0-f171.google.com [209.85.210.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5A58FC1B for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe1 with SMTP id 1so7298946yxe.3 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:20:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=k/Z1Ribw24kxE6FOjzFcOWd4gTHZY7fSuDqOy2Xbkw8=; b=WtJl0dz+iSGTk2L/CrOW9Q8FZeO0yXYyZrn2oaUtgjqh3/+d4W3iR6+wpBznmclhQo cEUwaE8lj4MO8sHUsBdfhJdhUuTSIfnbKrretWTwZQX1CEaeINr80TuC6q+eE4vHL67l YOO95Z/ZGYNOc2MK7pgNRTci5t7736SVtGFvc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=ALVWpy/8utX6obPfcXtrPGLdN45VEBmFqonfM9wvRq6RcQj48HA/AZz0tkpjhrOvE9 B5+ybCx8R/HBemZ8NGsl1Jb8N8d8/UV83n64X7rhNOYklBkJx2Uyo3CT+y1dbdtTPa0z lg8W710PNHJCWV/ug+AGx9R8pcdsW81XS88uE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.81.13 with SMTP id e13mr495397ybb.247.1254338429208; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:20:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> References: <1b3000aab88ea400a8a60a56aea835c5.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:20:29 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0909301220u3cfea5a2n59a576ca6d9d1009@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: chrisa@uvic.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 19:20:30 -0000 On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, wrote: > > 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. > > My systems work well with hal. I find overall setup to be faster and smoother(at this point in time) with hal enabled although there is much adversity to it on this list. Do you have xf86-input-mouse installed? -- Adam Vande More