From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 1 02:22:21 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 56D80106566B for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:22:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisa@uvic.ca) Received: from camel.comp.uvic.ca (camel.comp.uvic.ca [142.104.148.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2556C8FC0A for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wm3.uvic.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by camel.comp.uvic.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n912MJpL004331 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:22:20 -0700 Received: from 142.104.193.193 (proxying for 70.69.37.215) (SquirrelMail authenticated user chrisa) by wm3.uvic.ca with HTTP; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:22:20 -0700 Message-ID: <3bf2b136bc8e50cbd7eca54e09db6930.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> In-Reply-To: References: <1b3000aab88ea400a8a60a56aea835c5.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <6201873e0909301220u3cfea5a2n59a576ca6d9d1009@mail.gmail.com> <340fe87c23ba55b89024231e59dad7f1.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <302a6d597e448786230d74aa2ccb7502.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:22:20 -0700 From: chrisa@uvic.ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-UVic-Spam-Status: No X-UVic-Spam-Score: 0.045 AWL X-UVic-Spam-Level: Spam-Level X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 142.104.148.254 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: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:22:21 -0000 > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chrisa@uvic.ca wrote: > >>> 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 >> >> All right, I did that. > > What are you trying to fix with those entries? Nothing. I was just doing it to see what happens. > >> Created a new xorg.conf since it's working with the autoconfig now. > > And what is in it? Only this: Section "ServerFlags" option "AutoAddDevices" "off" option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" EndSection and nothing else. > >> The mouse and keyboard still work, and Xorg.0.log follows. > >> (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) >> (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard >> (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) > > Well, that's broken. Look, there are basically two ways to configure > keyboard and mouse for xorg. There's the old way, where you have > InputDevice entries for them in xorg.conf. > > Then there's the new way, where you run hal and let it handle the > keyboard and mouse for xorg. No InputDevice sections are needed. For > example, here is my xorg.conf from the Acer Aspire One. Note the lack > of InputDevice sections and those magic ServerFlags options. It does indeed appear broken. The keyboard and mouse still work, though, which doesn't make any sense to me. I don't have any InputDevice sections, as you can see, so if hal isn't configuring the keyboard and mouse, what is?