On 02/05/2012 19:40, Jerry wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2012 13:19:05 -0400 (EDT)
d...@safeport.com articulated:
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Albert Shih wrote:
I think the problem is indeed comme from Xorg.
Just to repeat: on this Gateway notebook, only one or the other of
the touchpad or mouse would work until I enabled moused
in /etc/rc.conf. Now either or both work, including when the USB
mouse is connected after X starts.
My experience corresponds with Warren's thoughts on this. I was
running the exact levels of software on an old Dell 800Mhz desktop and
new aDell laptop many many times faster, 4 cpu's etc, etc. HAL (which
is well named I think) did not work very well on the laptop and I
would lose the mouse and keyboard when I disabled the touchpad. On the
Desktop HAL worked fine. The laptop (keyboard and mouse anyway) works
fine without HAL.
HAL is now deprecated on GNU/Linux systems. Why it is still being kept
on life support in FreeBSD is the question that needs to be addressed.
This didn't just happen yesterday either. We continue to bump version
numbers yet fail to repair/replace crucial elements of the
operating system. What is even better, depending on whose forum you
choose to read, the problem is FreeBSD -- Linux -- Gnome -- KDE -- "The
Cat in the Hat" (no one has blamed Microsoft for this fiasco as far as
I know) yet the problem still exists. Since 2008, when HAL was being
deprecated, no one has properly addressed the problem. Everyone plays
the "blame game".
Be carefull that Linux notion of "Deprecated" is not exactly on par with
standard meaning of the term. ifconfig has been deprecated since 1999 in
Linux, OSS since 2001. Both are still alive and kicking. So it might be
that Linux will keep HAL for a while still.
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