Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:06:59 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: xorg upgrade and /etc/ttys regression Message-ID: <200901291106.59214.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <1233235381.1779.29.camel@wombat.2hip.net> References: <200901290955.n0T9t2Dx047682@lurza.secnetix.de> <1233235381.1779.29.camel@wombat.2hip.net>
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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 <alt>f1 or
<alt>f2 but the rest of the keyboard was mostly dead along with the mouse.
For example, I couldn't <ctrl><alt><backspace> to kill X but I could <alt>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
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