Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:14:22 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg upgrade and /etc/ttys regression Message-ID: <1233256462.1731.8.camel@wombat.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <200901291106.59214.kstewart@owt.com> References: <200901290955.n0T9t2Dx047682@lurza.secnetix.de> <1233235381.1779.29.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <200901291106.59214.kstewart@owt.com>
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--=-GmcyZbqTe6vqlWXdvMDf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:06 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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. >=20 > It actually goes in the ServerFlags section.=20 It is valid in both. Most people have a ServerLayout section, but many do not have a ServerFlags section. Options specified in this section (with the exception of the "Default ServerLayout" Option) may be overridden by Options specified in the active ServerLayout section.=20 robert. > I have a clean 7.1-p2 machine. It=20 > was built a few days ago and 7.1-release was the first OS on the HD. The=20 > release has only 7.3 and that was installed. It ran without an xorg.conf=20 > file. When I upgraded to 7.4, X and KDE quit working. I could <alt>f1 or=20 > <alt>f2 but the rest of the keyboard was mostly dead along with the mouse= .=20 > For example, I couldn't <ctrl><alt><backspace> to kill X but I could <alt= >f2=20 > and do a "shutdown now". I ran xorgconfig. It wouldn't work out of the bo= x=20 > because xorgconfig added >=20 > # Identifier and driver >=20 > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "Auto" # Auto detect > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" >=20 > When I added your AutoAddDevices line to my xorg.conf in the ServerFlags=20 > section, X and KDE started running. I shifts the screen a little bit to t= he=20 > left compared to my 6-stable machine, which is running 7.3 and a Windows = XP=20 > Pro system that all share a kvm switch. >=20 > After I made this machine work, I upgraded two others and they all had th= e=20 > same problem and solution. >=20 > Kent >=20 > > > > 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 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=-GmcyZbqTe6vqlWXdvMDf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmCAA4ACgkQM4TrQ4qfROMulACdHbSUPDVBSInXnePGVlVU+uRX sqEAn0iCIQGUrikdLtPvbHK3cxNXjnR5 =UiAL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GmcyZbqTe6vqlWXdvMDf--
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