Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-10-01 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chr...@uvic.ca wrote: Created a new xorg.conf since it's working with the autoconfig now. And what is in it? Only this: Section "ServerFlags" option "AutoAddDevices""off" option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" EndSection and nothing else. It doe

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 Warren Block
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, herbert langhans wrote: Maybe start over again installing the ports? There are drivers for the sis chipset, for the case you havent discovered them: /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis Please quote a little context to identify the problem. It's usually not necessary to

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block
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 right, I did that. What are you try

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, CmdLnKid wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36 -, chrisa wrote: (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or d

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread herbert langhans
Maybe start over again installing the ports? There are drivers for the sis chipset, for the case you havent discovered them: /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis Also the already mentioned /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse And then reinstall /usr/ports/x11/xorg (with a make config before

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 CmdLnKid
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36 -, chrisa wrote: 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 ins

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 Warren Block
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 installed. I'm going to tr

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, 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 installed

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 Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, wrote: > > 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 y

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread Warren Block
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 machines to be

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

Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-09-30 Thread herbert langhans
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 On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 03:59:23PM -0700, chr...@uvic.ca wrote: > I have severa