From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 10 14:05:09 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 2BC8A10656B5 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 14:05:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net (relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net [212.159.7.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39248FC23 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 14:05:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAOJ0BkrUnw6U/2dsb2JhbADMKIN+BQ Received: from fhw-relay07.plus.net ([212.159.14.148]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 10 May 2009 14:35:18 +0100 Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by fhw-relay07.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1M39BT-00017R-Cw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 May 2009 14:35:15 +0100 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M39BV-000L5o-J8 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 May 2009 14:35:18 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 14:35:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200905072343.46922.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <69401662@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <69401662@bb.ipt.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905101435.17396.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 933872ebfe40701f2c081ff16ddef089 Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to xorg-7.4_1 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: Sun, 10 May 2009 14:05:14 -0000 On Friday 08 May 2009, Boris Samorodov wrote: > New xorg uses hal by default. > > You have two options: either use hal [1] (i.e. start dbus and hald > while booting) or not use it (then you should tweak xorg.conf). > Either way please read recent freebsd-x11@ mail list archieves to > understand what's up and what to do. > [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-April/008185.html Thanks for the link. I was aware that xorg now uses hal but I didn't realise I would need to make any configuration adjustments to hal. Adding the keyboard details to /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi as described in the link fixed the problem. I was also able to get the keyboard working correctly without hal and dbus by adding Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" to xorg.conf. Since hal doesn't appear to usefully do anything else for me I've gone for the AllowEmptyInput option. I still need to fix my problem with the nv and nvidia drivers but I've discovered that things work OK with the vesa driver so I'll use that for now. -- Mike Clarke