Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote: > >>> 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 >> >> All ri

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> 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 All right, I did that. Created a new xorg.conf since it's working with the

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@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 in

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> 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

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote: > >> I discovered that compiling all ports on the relevant machine made it >> compile and start. Isn't it odd that the ones compiled on a slightly >> different i386 machine didn't? > > Not really. There are lots of ways for two "slightly" different > ma

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread chrisa
> I had similar troubles with hal. > > The easiest solutions is to get rid of hal. Deinstall it. The xorg-package > you can compile without hal (use make configure and uncheck hal) and it > will work. > > Cheers > herb langhans Thank you. I discovered that compiling all ports on the relevant mach

problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-29 Thread chrisa
I have several related problems with hald on 7.2 i386. First, on one machine (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2), hald will not start at startup, nor by executing the startup script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start. It doesn't exit with any error code: it simply produces no output at all, and ps -ax | grep hal

Re: Running X without a videocard

2008-11-19 Thread chrisa
>> I am running FBSD-stable 6.0 on some Sun Netra X1's so it is sparc64. >> There is no video card on these puppies. But I seem to recall that we >> ran >> solaris X using WinAXE or VNC or something like that >> > for fast network (LAN) > > > telnet/rlogin (better not ssh) > > export DISPLAY=IP-of

Could not lock the file "/var/tmp/gconf-test-locking-file-blah"

2008-11-16 Thread chrisa
Hello, I've installed FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0 on an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop, and Gnome errors out when I try to start it. The kernel was compiled with no ehci support in order to get the laptop to not freeze on shutdown after syncing the disks, but there are no other major changes. I've installed g