Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:19:03 -0400 From: CmdLnKid <cmdlnkid@gmail.com> To: chrisa@uvic.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909301717390.70573@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <f5f079e5d49d7c886e0086dc6fcc3853.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> References: <1b3000aab88ea400a8a60a56aea835c5.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <6201873e0909301220u3cfea5a2n59a576ca6d9d1009@mail.gmail.com> <340fe87c23ba55b89024231e59dad7f1.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909301357000.81404@wonkity.com> <f5f079e5d49d7c886e0086dc6fcc3853.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca>
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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))
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