Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--=-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--




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1233256462.1731.8.camel>