Lars Eighner wrote: > 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 This is a) outdated and b) those are options.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. >
I did the update before any of this showed up in UPDATING and I fixed the problems by reading the xorg.conf manual page. According to it AllowEmptyInput belongs into the ServerFlags section. _______________________________________________ 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"
