From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 30 19:50:02 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 8E4BA106568B for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:50:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f215.google.com (mail-gx0-f215.google.com [209.85.217.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B098FC1A for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:50:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk7 with SMTP id 7so5802456gxk.14 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:50:01 -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=ACIRVpJLHPvhHqIi2l4fyg2nEPhpr1vXVoAebrGvKRs=; b=UKOpTdGkIpXOkhYEGi8VYohGOUq8nFNZVX8/haUmMDdu3TjnS5IwZPRogJNYiT+3zA DP6X4EMj9B7gbG1ZmKpzheYma1nJ45fTam5fVWq9J33AYhCI5w59A231taMZyKQpZD07 XyvSadcUcIE1hTdI2eWRfcXheq6Wex+4ovDpE= 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=hqKNt3bCNJFaWozH6ThD9aFX8X8nhOyAMMOhSaGGqF4ow6HfYECBoyvvlYekTsqLuy 2JDyOQeXJNKlIGWPUyX7qmJBhMnOF5Ko39gi9Q0dtP20XVOXOEq2AZ4MVcJqYfJ0jOI4 BwArV/TcYNNnYaye9f6CNUVfH1L9SoXsfeZd0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.130.31 with SMTP id c31mr553528ybd.278.1254340201546; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:50:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <340fe87c23ba55b89024231e59dad7f1.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> References: <1b3000aab88ea400a8a60a56aea835c5.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <6201873e0909301220u3cfea5a2n59a576ca6d9d1009@mail.gmail.com> <340fe87c23ba55b89024231e59dad7f1.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:01 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0909301250h2c7bd96es1666a89262d3ab5b@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 19:50:02 -0000 On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, wrote: > > 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? Yup I recall > reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything > slower and less responsive. Interesting. > I think this was due to couple of different factors with a large one being a one point there was a bug causing extreme cpu usage. IMO, there was also been a lot of misinformation and probably misconfiguration due to it. As stated already, posting /var/log/Xorg.0.log is the best way to solve this. -- Adam Vande More