On 14/02/2014 02:02, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >>> I hadn't any problems with HAL yet on kfreebsd-10, though I'm not >>> hot-plugging anything. >> >> One could say this is not a great achievement on HAL's part, considering its >> only >> purpose when it comes to X is hot-plugging ;-) > > Oh. Didn't know it would work without HAL, unless I manually configured > it in xorg.conf (which I haven't).
Before HAL existed, we supported USB mice too (via debconf IIRC). Just not hotplugging. >> Can you reproduce #736765 ? > > I'll try when I get a chance to reboot. (Probably tomorrow). You can recover without reboot, simply switch to VT0 and then back to VT7. The keyboard is ignored by X but not by syscons. >> It's just that X needs to know it's using a backend for device autoconfig. >> If it's not HAL, >> then whatever else. > > But the first one doesn't make sense, like a typo: > > +--- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c > ++++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c > +@@ -1376,15 +1376,17 @@ > +-#if defined(CONFIG_HAL) || defined(CONFIG_UDEV) || defined(CONFIG_WSCONS) > ++#if defined(CONFIG_HAL) || defined(CONFIG_UDEV) || > defined(CONFIG_WSCONS) || defined(CONFIG_HAL) Yes. I had noted this. It's fixed in the latest patch I've sent (earlier versions had a workaround). -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
