Functional KDE desktop

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I am in the process of upgrading all the ports on a 9.1-PRERELEASE system and I am having a lot of trouble building or running KDE 4.9.5. I couldn't build it due to x11/xsd not building (didn't make a necessary header), or if I worked around that libkonq was not found by cmake. If I manage

What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False" EndSection I am pretty sure this used to be necessary,

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now > results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). > > I found that I needed to add the following.. > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowEmptyI

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Mar 2013 12:07, "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: > > Hi, > I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). > > I found that I needed to add the following.. > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "Fal

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:44, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > so I think your setup is somehow broken. You didn't mention which version of > xorg you are using. Very possibly :) I have xorg-server 1.7.7_6,1 > Does lshal show any inputdevices? I see the following.. udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atk

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:47, Chris Rees wrote: > > BTW I have dbus & hald running. > > Have you read http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html ? I have read it in the past. I _am_ running hald and am happy to do so, but it now appears broken (this system did not need AEI until I updated l

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:47, "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: >> Does lshal show any inputdevices? > > I see the following.. Oops, I just pasted the keyboard entries instead of the mouse ones.. udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c404_noserial_if0' freebsd.device_file = '/dev/ums1' (st

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 17/03/2013, at 22:44, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > so I think your setup is somehow broken. You didn't mention which > version of xorg you are using. > > Very possibly :) > I have xorg-server 1.7.7_6,1 > > > Does lshal show any inputde

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:37:08PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: > Hi, > I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X > config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). > > I found that I needed to add the following.. > Section "Se

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 23:00, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Looks promising. Just to make sure, have you verified that hald is still > running? Things can crash... Yep, it's still running. >> > Have you tried to do the build from a clean environment? > >> Not really, I can't just nuke the existing pac

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding > the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it > show up working, but that's annoying and stupid (and not an option on > other systems with e.g. PS/2

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, "Matthew D. Fuller" > wrote: > > However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding > > the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it > > show up working, but that's anno

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:37:08PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I nee

Re: Functional KDE desktop

2013-03-17 Thread Eric S Pulley
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:35:02 +1030 "Daniel O'Connor" wrote: > Hi, > I am in the process of upgrading all the ports on a 9.1-PRERELEASE > system and I am having a lot of trouble building or running KDE 4.9.5. > > I couldn't build it due to x11/xsd not building (didn't make a > necessary header),

9.1-stable mergemaster -D fails

2013-03-17 Thread John
running 9.1-STABLE r247548 updating to 9.1-STABLE r248381 When updating to the new version in a zfs beadm environment, mergemaster -D /mnt fails with install: illegal option -- l install (1) in the new version has an added -l switch which is used in bsd.own.mk which in turn is used by mergemaster

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Don Lewis
On 17 Mar, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> >> On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, "Matthew D. Fuller" >> wrote: >> > However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding >> > the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X m

Re: What is the Right Way($(D"o(B) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18/03/2013, at 8:54, Don Lewis wrote: > I don't recall if I disabled hald and changed xorg.conf to point to > /dev/psm0 before I re-enabled moused. I do know that hald is currently > disabled and nothing obvious seems to be broken in Gnome. > > I haven't had any issues with AllowEmptyInput s

Re: What is the Right Way(�"o) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 18/03/2013, at 8:54, Don Lewis wrote: > > I don't recall if I disabled hald and changed xorg.conf to point to > > /dev/psm0 before I re-enabled moused. I do know that hald is currently > > disabled and nothing obvious seems to be br

Re: What is the Right Way(�"o) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18/03/2013, at 11:51, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> This sounds exactly like what I have, although I do find it odd that hal >> doesn't manage to open /dev/sysmouse and use that (even if it fails for >> /dev/ums* etc). lshal does show a mount device listed with /dev/sysmouse as >> the device name