Axel Beckert a écrit : > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:32:58AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >>>> I think that xorg needs hal to work correctly but hal is not >>>> suitable for kFreeBSD. >>> This is a known problem, but the X.org maintainers refuse to >>> downgrade the recently added Depends to a Recommends (which it >>> technically is). They even use all CAPS-LOCK lines to defend this >>> very unpopular decision. >> There is no need to, hal should be available and should work on >> GNU/kFreeBSD. > > I haven't restarted X since the upgrade because I feared problems > after all the hassles I had on other boxes with 7.4 and it really > worked smooth with 7.3. > > So I just restarted X and neither USB mouse nor USB keyboard work > anymore. Great. > > It works neither with the xorg.conf which worked fine for 7.3 nor with > all the input devices commented out nor without xorg.conf at all. > > The log says: > > | (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 disable > | AllowEmptyInput. > > But neither Xorg(1) nor X(7) say anything about HAL. > > If I do "dpkg-reconfigure -plow hal", I just get the following: > > | # dpkg-reconfigure -plow hal > | Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald. > | Reloading system message bus config...done. > | Can't start Hardware abstraction layer - enable inotify support in your > kernel failed! > > Haha. And no, I wouldn't call that "working on GNU/kFreeBSD".
It's a mistake, the init script hasn't been correctly patched to remove this check. Could you please try to remove it manually from /etc/init.d/hal? You may have other lines to remove too. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
