From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 30 19:43:12 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 2A5CE106568F for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:43:12 +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 E1D478FC14 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:43:11 +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 n8UJhB6F016987 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:43:11 -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 12:43:11 -0700 Message-ID: <340fe87c23ba55b89024231e59dad7f1.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> In-Reply-To: <6201873e0909301220u3cfea5a2n59a576ca6d9d1009@mail.gmail.com> References: <1b3000aab88ea400a8a60a56aea835c5.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <6201873e0909301220u3cfea5a2n59a576ca6d9d1009@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:43:11 -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: 0.033 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 19:43:12 -0000 > 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? I do have it installed. I'm going to try manual configuration to see if I can make it work. By the way, you find it faster and smoother with hal enabled? I recall reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything slower and less responsive. Interesting.