From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 12:36:37 2010 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 509311065693 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:36:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C73A8FC08 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7JCaZL4068627; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:36:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id o7JCaZee068624; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:36:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:36:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Ondrej Majerech In-Reply-To: <4C6CBEAD.4070504@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4C6D1399.5050601@comcast.net> <4C6CBEAD.4070504@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:36:35 -0600 (MDT) Cc: Rem Roberti , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Xorg Problems 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: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:36:37 -0000 On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Ondrej Majerech wrote: > On 19-Aug-10 13:20, Rem Roberti wrote: >> I'm having trouble with xorg on a new 8.1 installation. I haven't >> installed a wm yet, but when I try to call up the generic x windows by >> typing "startx" they do indeed appear, but all three of the x windows >> are locked up. By that I mean that there is no mouse, and no possibility >> of entering data in the windows via the keyboard. Totally frozen. And >> you can't get out of x in the usual manner i.e. ctrl-alt-backspace. The >> only thing that works is ctrl-alt-del which, of course, reboots the >> computer. Any ideas are appreciated. The Handbook chapter describes what to do: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > "New" Xorg requires HAL and Dbus to recognize input devices by default. Do > you have these enabled? > > Alternatively, you revert to the old, no-HAL method by adding > > Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" Yes. > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False" No. Please don't use that, it's not necessary and sometimes causes problems. AutoAddDevices "Off" by itself disables hal input device detection. > into your ServerFlags in xorg.conf. Or just put them in ServerLayout. > You might also want to add Option "DontZap" "false" into the same section as > well to have Ctrl-Alt-Backspace working again. I think that DontZap is back to the default, but it's now the key combination that is unset, so setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp is the way to fix it. But it's been a while since I've needed to kill X manually, so haven't tried it lately.