On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: >> >> Also by Benjamin Kaduk : >>> >>> >>> Has this computer successfully run other versions of FreeBSD with X? >>> I seem to recall there can be odd interactions with hald, xorg.conf, and >>> others. Some googling brings up >>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html which seems to cover >>> many of >>> the relevant issues. >>> >>> -Ben Kaduk >>> >>> >>> -------------------------- >>> >>> After the above messages , >>> on the same computer , I have installed the FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 amd64 again . >>> >>> I have generated an xorg.conf file . >>> >>> Into the xorg.conf file and ServerLayout part , I have inserted >>> >>> Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" >>> >>> The USB Mouse and Keyboard , Fluxbox started to work as expected in the >>> graphical mode under X . >>> >>> >>> Without the above statement about Option , the error message is : >>> >>> (EE) config/hal : couldn't initialise context . unknown error (null) >>> >> >> This line appears if x11-servers/xorg-server was built with the HAL option >> enabled. >> >> In FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 i386 , such a step is NOT necessary . >>> >> >> They should be the same. On i386, maybe xorg-server was built with the HAL >> option disabled? > > > > I do not know because I am using downloaded .iso files as they are supplied > in mirrors without any modification .
The default is WITH_HAL: OPTIONS+= HAL "Compile with HAL config support" on Why WITHOUT_HAL would be defined with i386 and not amd64, I have no idea, but if the build environments are consistently then it should be on for both. Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
