On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:06 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2009 05:23:01 am Robert Noland wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:55 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Just to be clear ... Am I understanding things right that > > > the new X server requires hald and dbus running? It won't > > > work anymore without them? > > > > > > (That would be a good reason for me not to update.) > > > > It will work without it. > > > > you need to specify Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" in the ServerLayout > > section of your xorg.conf. > > It actually goes in the ServerFlags section.
It is valid in both. Most people have a ServerLayout section, but many do not have a ServerFlags section. Options specified in this section (with the exception of the "Default ServerLayout" Option) may be overridden by Options specified in the active ServerLayout section. robert. > I have a clean 7.1-p2 machine. It > was built a few days ago and 7.1-release was the first OS on the HD. The > release has only 7.3 and that was installed. It ran without an xorg.conf > file. When I upgraded to 7.4, X and KDE quit working. I could <alt>f1 or > <alt>f2 but the rest of the keyboard was mostly dead along with the mouse. > For example, I couldn't <ctrl><alt><backspace> to kill X but I could <alt>f2 > and do a "shutdown now". I ran xorgconfig. It wouldn't work out of the box > because xorgconfig added > > # Identifier and driver > > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "Auto" # Auto detect > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" > > When I added your AutoAddDevices line to my xorg.conf in the ServerFlags > section, X and KDE started running. I shifts the screen a little bit to the > left compared to my 6-stable machine, which is running 7.3 and a Windows XP > Pro system that all share a kvm switch. > > After I made this machine work, I upgraded two others and they all had the > same problem and solution. > > Kent > > > > > You can also disable the HAL option when building the server, but you > > still need the above I believe. I think it has been fixed in git so > > that if HAL is not configured that the defaults revert to the old > > behavior. > > > > robert. > > > > > Best regards > > > Oliver > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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