From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 30 21:41:40 2009 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 B738A106566B for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:41:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmdlnkid@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0946A8FC18 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so2075165fgg.13 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:41:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id :x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version:content-type; bh=DRayIFnoDfS9ZGnCFu06RW+7IIvbpdzOu+drRfqWl44=; b=GcGggjoK5WJh1IgfZFCLO3E2TbdWYaMq8nA2Q/XEP8w1CvNEQrsa0MST5X86HM93lJ 24+xeFrjVcaJe44W8I/s5ZC5XIuyr8ppG3O0YB3Ffd0Ptmp6GKAmwn8uVm6VdbRDbLvF 52bkyOzJppoU9qWidbEyhI4T83w0gdT7hsbhg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references :user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; b=vZp+lrARg/SPkqIVaJW5ZGe6q19aYS3Q9U8E4/VMKaRiG3Ca6TIZ8N1IWB+myGB1YP b7WcXTcCigtDtbywjdGqLvAWSLfBCVuewcvI/yM1cp4+k7jerXar50JlUdpEbnzEMB3p 9p/f32Ad1gTSyE0cEq/qBUi8CKqEiKT/puAnY= Received: by 10.86.221.25 with SMTP id t25mr444857fgg.19.1254345558152; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:19:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dimension.5p.local (adsl-99-35-15-84.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net [99.35.15.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d4sm24646fga.22.2009.09.30.14.19.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:19:03 -0400 From: CmdLnKid To: chrisa@uvic.ca In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1b3000aab88ea400a8a60a56aea835c5.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <6201873e0909301220u3cfea5a2n59a576ca6d9d1009@mail.gmail.com> <340fe87c23ba55b89024231e59dad7f1.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0xFAD8B467 X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: D197 8B5A C1BC AD25 33C9 16DF 2C68 DCDE FAD8 B467 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386 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: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:41:40 -0000 On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36 -0000, chrisa wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chrisa@uvic.ca wrote: >> >>>> My systems work well with hal. I find overall setup to be faster and >>>> smoother(at this point in time) with hal enabled although there is much >>>> adversity to it on this list. >>>> >>>> Do you have xf86-input-mouse installed? >>> >>> I do have it installed. I'm going to try manual configuration to see if >>> I >>> can make it work. >> >> If you can tell what graphics card you have, no doubt someone can >> provide a sample. I can come up with ones for ATI and Intel. > > It's a Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or something. > Built-in to the motherboard. That's what Xorg autodetects, anyway, and it > starts up and shows blackbox. > > I ran Xorg -configure and started it with the result xorg.conf.new, and > that time the screen stayed black throughout. Odd. > >> >>> By the way, you find it faster and smoother with hal enabled? I recall >>> reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything >>> slower and less responsive. Interesting. >> >> It turns out that hal plus a "disable hal" option makes things not work. >> The opposite is probably also true. > > Interesting. > > Anyhow, I looked at my Xorg.0.log. I noticed a line saying it can't find > any input devices, and relies upon hal to find them. Then I ran a ps -ax > and found that hal isn't running, even though it should be, being set to > start in rc.conf, along with dbus. So I started it, the startup script > appeared to work, but hald still isn't running. Then I started dbus first, > then hald, and they were both running, restarted X, and suddenly it works. > > I swear both were running last night when the mouse and keyboard input > didn't work. They are, after all, set to start up at boot time. Also, the > most recent Xorg.0.log contains the lines: > > (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. > (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. > (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. > If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable > AllowEmptyInput. > > even though the mouse and keyboard both work now. To make sure that it was > the most recent log file, I deleted all the Xorg logs, restarted it, and > read the most recent one. And it still contains those lines with the > working mouse and keyboard. > > Thanks, all, for your help. Now I only have TWO problems left! > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Add the following to your X11 config and see what you come up with. Section "ServerFlags" option "AutoAddDevices" "off" option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" EndSection Best regards -- - (2^(N-1))