Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Monday, 16 May 2011: > On Mon, 16 May 2011, Chip Camden wrote: > > >Looks like cinepaint doesn't have any GNOME dependencies, and also no HAL > >dependency. Now if I can just learn how to do everything I know how to > >do in GIMP, I'll be set for that piece. > > > >I don't u

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Monday, 16 May 2011: > On Mon, 16 May 2011, Chip Camden wrote: > > >Looks like cinepaint doesn't have any GNOME dependencies, and also no HAL > >dependency. Now if I can just learn how to do everything I know how to > >do in GIMP, I'll be set for that piece. > > > >I don't u

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:27:50 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:13:48PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Gnumeric I use more frequently (for spreadsheets). I hate having to > > start up that monolithic libreoffice just to do a spreadsheet, but that > > would be a HAL-free al

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 May 2011 17:13:48 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > I don't use dia very often (it's for diagrams). So maybe gnuplot is an alternative (if we have the same kind of diagrams in mind)? > Gnumeric I use more > frequently (for spreadsheets). I hate having to start up that monolithic > libr

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:13:48PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Gnumeric I use more frequently (for spreadsheets). I hate having to > start up that monolithic libreoffice just to do a spreadsheet, but that > would be a HAL-free alternative. When I'm creating something from scratch that some peo

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Chip Camden wrote: Looks like cinepaint doesn't have any GNOME dependencies, and also no HAL dependency. Now if I can just learn how to do everything I know how to do in GIMP, I'll be set for that piece. I don't use dia very often (it's for diagrams). Gnumeric I use more

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 16 May 2011: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:14:49AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Yes, that seems to be the sticking point. The only option appears to be > > doing without gimp, gnumeric, and dia, which all depend upon libgnomeui. > > Any Gnome-free alternatives out

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 16 May 2011: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:14:49AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > Yes, that seems to be the sticking point. The only option appears to be > > doing without gimp, gnumeric, and dia, which all depend upon libgnomeui. > > Any Gnome-free alternatives out

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:14:49AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Yes, that seems to be the sticking point. The only option appears to be > doing without gimp, gnumeric, and dia, which all depend upon libgnomeui. > Any Gnome-free alternatives out there? I don't use anything like gnumeric or dia,

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Polytropon wrote: Maybe, just MAYBE, the gnome-mount dependency can be installed without requiring HAL. I don't know much about the details, but HAL has been said to be the means for automounting local media, and maybe is in conjuction with Samba. If you can disable such fun

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:14:49 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Warren Block on Monday, 16 May 2011: > > One problem with getting rid of hal entirely is libgnomeui, which > > depends on gvfs, which depends on gnome-mount, which depends on hal. That's what I did assume. > Yes, that seems to be

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Monday, 16 May 2011: > On Mon, 16 May 2011, Daniel Staal wrote: > > >--As of May 16, 2011 10:00:38 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said: > > > >>On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden > >> wrote: > >>>I wish I could figure > >>>out what dependency wanted HAL

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Eitan Adler
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden > wrote: >> I wish I could figure >> out what dependency wanted HAL to be installed so I could remove it. > > I would assume that the HAL dependency may be required by > some deeper-inside Gnome

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Daniel Staal on Monday, 16 May 2011: > --As of May 16, 2011 10:00:38 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said: > > >On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden > > wrote: > >>I wish I could figure > >>out what dependency wanted HAL to be installed so I could remove it. > > > >I would

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of May 16, 2011 10:00:38 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said: On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I wish I could figure out what dependency wanted HAL to be installed so I could remove it. I would assume that the HAL

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 16, 2011 10:00:38 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said: On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I wish I could figure out what dependency wanted HAL to be installed so I could remove it. I would assume that the HAL dependency may be required by some deeper-

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 May 2011 12:18:28 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > I wish I could figure > out what dependency wanted HAL to be installed so I could remove it. I would assume that the HAL dependency may be required by some deeper-inside Gnome part that is used by Gimp, maybe a part of the Gtk+ library...

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-15 Thread perryh
Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of May 15, 2011 8:03:29 PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com is > alleged to have said: > > > The AT and PS/2 keyboard interfaces are electrically identical > > -- only the physical connector is different. > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > The physical connector is all

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 15, 2011 8:03:29 PM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com is alleged to have said: The AT and PS/2 keyboard interfaces are electrically identical -- only the physical connector is different. (I have seen, and used, adapters to connect either type of keyboard to the other type of system. Su

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-15 Thread perryh
Polytropon wrote: > Do _NOT_ hotplug the PS/2 port! It's not capable of that! > > I've seen myself in the past that trying so caused a mainboard > to fly into the garbage can - as hotplugging the keyboard > seemed to have damaged the PS/2 port (it didn't work anymore, > with no keyboard). This i

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Lars Eighner on Sunday, 15 May 2011: > On Sat, 14 May 2011, Rob Clark wrote: > > >After restarting X, prior to any reboot, I lost the mouse in X. > >So I figured a reboot was in order. > > This is almost certainly HAL. If you do not know you need HAL for > something, mark the hal and hal-i

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 14 May 2011, Rob Clark wrote: After restarting X, prior to any reboot, I lost the mouse in X. So I figured a reboot was in order. This is almost certainly HAL. If you do not know you need HAL for something, mark the hal and hal-info ports FORBIDDEN (set FORBIDDEN to any value in the M

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable="YES" culprit

2011-05-15 Thread Polytropon
Please allow me a technical sidenote: On Sat, 14 May 2011 20:53:27 -0700 (PDT), Rob Clark wrote: > Trying the obvious first, I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it > back in the ps2 port, and keyboard worked immediately -- this > was repeatable.  Do _NOT_ hotplug the PS/2 port! It's not capabl