From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 19:07:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7631065694 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:07:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [66.119.213.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DF28FC1D for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:07:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz.owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.owt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0TJ6xFo029020; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:07:00 -0800 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=owt.com; s=default; t=1233256020; bh=LaitzCwA7tqy8BYy9S0wZP4UJHcNLgiGQZ5VepnopVs=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=CNcOS1N4DmapY d8tHb8nEUGRwOSC8A/a0Q2egpPm69YyfwvcwoXSJKl3KPhujUEcfxSxSsi56SjKzPlm 8gIjVduFlckSfA4hk1w4iTVYXFOwiY2elKh7DjjPPKatf9CQkU5eXW4Q4mjHj/BEP/t 3Xb6w1nlZiJVGUMeG2mLuMIs= From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:06:59 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200901290955.n0T9t2Dx047682@lurza.secnetix.de> <1233235381.1779.29.camel@wombat.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <1233235381.1779.29.camel@wombat.2hip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901291106.59214.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Oliver Fromme , Robert Noland Subject: Re: xorg upgrade and /etc/ttys regression X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:07:02 -0000 On Thursday 29 January 2009 05:23:01 am Robert Noland wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:55 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Just to be clear ... Am I understanding things right that > > the new X server requires hald and dbus running? It won't > > work anymore without them? > > > > (That would be a good reason for me not to update.) > > It will work without it. > > you need to specify Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" in the ServerLayout > section of your xorg.conf. It actually goes in the ServerFlags section. I have a clean 7.1-p2 machine. It was built a few days ago and 7.1-release was the first OS on the HD. The release has only 7.3 and that was installed. It ran without an xorg.conf file. When I upgraded to 7.4, X and KDE quit working. I could f1 or f2 but the rest of the keyboard was mostly dead along with the mouse. For example, I couldn't to kill X but I could f2 and do a "shutdown now". I ran xorgconfig. It wouldn't work out of the box because xorgconfig added # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Auto" # Auto detect Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" When I added your AutoAddDevices line to my xorg.conf in the ServerFlags section, X and KDE started running. I shifts the screen a little bit to the left compared to my 6-stable machine, which is running 7.3 and a Windows XP Pro system that all share a kvm switch. After I made this machine work, I upgraded two others and they all had the same problem and solution. Kent > > You can also disable the HAL option when building the server, but you > still need the above I believe. I think it has been fixed in git so > that if HAL is not configured that the defaults revert to the old > behavior. > > robert. > > > Best regards > > Oliver