Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:05:45 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: Tom Mende <tmende@optusnet.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg hal dbus Message-ID: <20090210015442.S2455@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> In-Reply-To: <49912C77.8060504@bsdforen.de> References: <C105E30E-6DF0-4794-BF48-0FB43D3D2116@optusnet.com.au> <49912C77.8060504@bsdforen.de>
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> 1. Add Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" to your ServerLayout section. >> This will cause X to use the configured kbd, mouse, and vmmouse >> sections from your xorg.conf >> >> 2. Don't use moused. If you want it to work with addon usb mice >> set this in rc.conf: >> >> moused_enable="NO" >> moused_nondefault_enable="NO" > > This is a) outdated and b) those are options. That means you do > one of them, not both. > >> I'm working on fixing hald or the mouse driver or both. >> <snip> >> After restoring my old xorg.conf and commenting out the RgbPath line, I >> added "AllowEmptyInput" "off" to the xorg.conf server layout section and >> disabled moused in rc.conf as per above. > > Don't disable moused. > >> Now on issuing startx I get a >> message saying the "AllowEmptyInput" line can't be parsed. Where should >> this line go?? From the context I assumed it should go into xorg.conf, >> but if not, where?? > > It goes into the xorg.conf. The question is just where did you put it? > This is how it looks and works on my system: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > EndSection Is "ServerFlags" different from "ServerLayout"? I followed the instructions in UPDATING which seemed to me to indicate the section was "ServerLayout" --- after it became clear that the later UPDATING about it being fixed was somewhat overly optimistic. Someone suggested the mouse problem could be fixed by deleting a file in hal, but did not specify which file. Evidently hal not only kills the mouse, but kills using the numeric key pad for a mouse (or perhaps kills most of the keyboard --- enough of the keyboard was left that I could switch to a text-mode virtual terminal and kill xorg. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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