Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386
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 machine made it compile and start. Isn't it odd that the ones compiled on a slightly different i386 machine didn't? Anyway, the mouse still doesn't work in X, and from what I'm hearing, it's possible to get the mouse to work in X without it, so I am going to get rid of hal. By the way, any ideas on why the mouse input mightn't work in X? It's a usb mouse, but moused in text mode works with it. Cheers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386
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 really different. Fair enough. This makes me wonder, though, how the packages downloaded from the ftp server can be run without problems on most machines. What is the difference between the machine compiling those for everyone to use and me compiling my own for another of my machines to use? Is there something you have to do to make sure they're compatible? Anyway, the mouse still doesn't work in X, and from what I'm hearing, it's possible to get the mouse to work in X without it, so I am going to get rid of hal. Or you could fix your configuration. I'd love to. By the way, any ideas on why the mouse input mightn't work in X? It's a usb mouse, but moused in text mode works with it. Your xorg.conf probably has outdated options in it. But it's hard to tell without seeing it. Actually, I don't have one at all. I'm letting Xorg autodetect everything. Evidently it's not autodetecting the mouse. I'm thinking it's time to try manual configuration. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386
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 make it work. By the way, you find it faster and smoother with hal enabled? I recall reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything slower and less responsive. Interesting. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386
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 try manual configuration to see if I can make it work. If you can tell what graphics card you have, no doubt someone can provide a sample. I can come up with ones for ATI and Intel. It's a Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or something. Built-in to the motherboard. That's what Xorg autodetects, anyway, and it starts up and shows blackbox. I ran Xorg -configure and started it with the result xorg.conf.new, and that time the screen stayed black throughout. Odd. By the way, you find it faster and smoother with hal enabled? I recall reading an earlier thread about hal where some people found everything slower and less responsive. Interesting. It turns out that hal plus a disable hal option makes things not work. The opposite is probably also true. Interesting. Anyhow, I looked at my Xorg.0.log. I noticed a line saying it can't find any input devices, and relies upon hal to find them. Then I ran a ps -ax and found that hal isn't running, even though it should be, being set to start in rc.conf, along with dbus. So I started it, the startup script appeared to work, but hald still isn't running. Then I started dbus first, then hald, and they were both running, restarted X, and suddenly it works. I swear both were running last night when the mouse and keyboard input didn't work. They are, after all, set to start up at boot time. Also, the most recent Xorg.0.log contains the lines: (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. even though the mouse and keyboard both work now. To make sure that it was the most recent log file, I deleted all the Xorg logs, restarted it, and read the most recent one. And it still contains those lines with the working mouse and keyboard. Thanks, all, for your help. Now I only have TWO problems left! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386
Add the following to your X11 config and see what you come up with. Section ServerFlags option AutoAddDevicesoff option AllowEmptyInput off EndSection Best regards All right, I did that. Created a new xorg.conf since it's working with the autoconfig now. The mouse and keyboard still work, and Xorg.0.log follows. X.Org X Server 1.6.1 Release Date: 2009-4-14 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 i386 Current Operating System: FreeBSD nimue.gv.shawcable.net 7.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 29 12:51:56 PDT 2009 chr...@nimue.gv.shawcable.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NODEBUG i386 Build Date: 29 September 2009 09:08:23PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Wed Sep 30 14:56:25 2009 (==) Using config file: /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section. (==) No screen section available. Using defaults. (**) |--Screen Default Screen Section (0) (**) | |--Monitor default monitor (==) No monitor specified for screen Default Screen Section. Using a default monitor configuration. (**) Option AllowEmptyInput off (**) Option AutoAddDevices off (**) Not automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (==) FontPath set to: /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, built-ins (==) ModulePath set to /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules (==) |--Input Device default pointer (==) |--Input Device default keyboard (==) No Layout section. Using the default mouse configuration. (==) No Layout section. Using the default keyboard configuration. (II) Loader magic: 0x6a0 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 5.0 X.Org XInput driver : 4.0 X.Org Server Extension : 2.0 (II) Loader running on freebsd (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) (--) using VT number 9 (--) PCI:*(0...@1:0:0) Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter rev 0, Mem @ 0xe000/134217728, 0xec00/131072, I/O @ 0xd000/128, BIOS @ 0x/65536 (II) System resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000c - 0x000e (0x3) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x - 0x0009 (0xa) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B] [4] -1 0 0x - 0x00ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) LoadModule: extmod (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: dbe (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so (II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (==) AIGLX disabled (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: record (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//librecord.so (II) Module record: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.13.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension RECORD (II) LoadModule: dri (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so (II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: dri2 (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri2.so (II) Module dri2: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension DRI2 (==) Matched sis for the
Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386
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 AutoAddDevicesoff option AllowEmptyInput off EndSection Best regards All right, I did that. What are you trying to fix with those entries? Nothing. I was just doing it to see what happens. Created a new xorg.conf since it's working with the autoconfig now. And what is in it? Only this: Section ServerFlags option AutoAddDevicesoff option AllowEmptyInput off EndSection and nothing else. The mouse and keyboard still work, and Xorg.0.log follows. (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8) Well, that's broken. Look, there are basically two ways to configure keyboard and mouse for xorg. There's the old way, where you have InputDevice entries for them in xorg.conf. Then there's the new way, where you run hal and let it handle the keyboard and mouse for xorg. No InputDevice sections are needed. For example, here is my xorg.conf from the Acer Aspire One. Note the lack of InputDevice sections and those magic ServerFlags options. It does indeed appear broken. The keyboard and mouse still work, though, which doesn't make any sense to me. I don't have any InputDevice sections, as you can see, so if hal isn't configuring the keyboard and mouse, what is? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386
I have several related problems with hald on 7.2 i386. First, on one machine (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2), hald will not start at startup, nor by executing the startup script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start. It doesn't exit with any error code: it simply produces no output at all, and ps -ax | grep hal shows that it didn't start. Incidentally, the dbus and cupsd scripts in the same directory also do nothing. On the other machine, however (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE), hald doesn't *build*. It errors out with: /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so: undefined reference to `strn...@fbsd_1.1' gmake[4]: *** [hald] Error 1 gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11/hald' gmake[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11/hald' gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11/hald' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/hal. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/hal. This machine was a new install from the 7.2 i386 CD, so to save time I used packages that had already been built on the first machine. All of these packages were built within a day of each other, from a previously updated ports tree with all previously installed packages removed. Xorg and hald and dbus and everything related installed just fine, and Xorg works, except that the mouse doesn't work, which I suspect is caused by hald not working. On this machine, the hald that was compiled on the first machine won't start, this time giving an error: r...@nimue /usr/local/etc/rc.d # ./hald start Starting hald. r...@nimue /usr/local/etc/rc.d # /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: version FBSD_1.1 required by /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so.2 not found Any thoughts? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Running X without a videocard
I am running FBSD-stable 6.0 on some Sun Netra X1's so it is sparc64. There is no video card on these puppies. But I seem to recall that we ran solaris X using WinAXE or VNC or something like that for fast network (LAN) telnet/rlogin (better not ssh) export DISPLAY=IP-of-your-display:0 then start X apps make sure to allow on your local display connecting X program - man xhost for lower speed connection ssh -C -X yournetra then run X apps for lowest speed connection run VNC. if your local display run windoze you probably have only the last choice. i don't know if they are working X11 servers for windows. There are, in fact, in cygwin. The cygwin X11 server works quite well and is free. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could not lock the file /var/tmp/gconf-test-locking-file-blah
Hello, I've installed FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0 on an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop, and Gnome errors out when I try to start it. The kernel was compiled with no ehci support in order to get the laptop to not freeze on shutdown after syncing the disks, but there are no other major changes. I've installed gnome and all other packages from packages-7-stable/Lastest on the website, and it gives me the error from the subject line, 'Could not lock the file /var/tmp/gconf-test-locking-file-blah'. It says that it's an NFS locking error, but I'm not using NFS. Do you think that the packages from 7-stable are simply not compatible with 7.0-RELEASE (kde works fine), or is something else going on? My dmesg follows: Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 15 00:34:06 PST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOEHCI Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 (1596.01-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x40f82 Stepping = 2 Features=0x178bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT Features2=0x2001SSE3,CX16 AMD Features=0xea500800SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow! AMD Features2=0x1fLAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8 Cores per package: 2 usable memory = 924700672 (881 MB) avail memory = 890621952 (849 MB) ACPI APIC Table: PTLTD APIC FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI ioapic0 Version 2.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Nov 15 2008 00:33:42) acpi0: PTLTD RSDT on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, 1000 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x8008-0x800b on acpi0 acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x10 port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 powernow0: PowerNow! K8 on cpu0 cpu1: ACPI CPU on acpi0 powernow1: PowerNow! K8 on cpu1 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 acpi_button1: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xc800-0xcfff,0xc010-0xc010 irq 17 at device 5.0 on pci1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 4.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 5.0 on pci0 pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 ohci0: ATI SB400 USB Controller mem 0xc0004000-0xc0004fff irq 19 at device 19.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ohci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: ATI SB400 USB Controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: ATI OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb0 uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ohci1: ATI SB400 USB Controller mem 0xc0005000-0xc0005fff irq 19 at device 19.1 on pci0 ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] ohci1: [ITHREAD] usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: ATI SB400 USB Controller on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: ATI OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 on usb1 uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 19.2 (no driver attached) pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 20.0 (no driver attached) atapci0: ATI IXP400 UDMA133 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x8410-0x841f irq 16 at device 20.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 ata1: [ITHREAD] pcm0: ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller mem 0xc000-0xc0003fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 pcm0: [ITHREAD] isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 20.3 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 20.4 on pci0 pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 rl0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xc021-0xc02100ff irq 21 at device 1.0 on pci6 miibus0: MII bus on rl0 rlphy0: RealTek internal media interface PHY 0 on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl0: Ethernet address: 00:16:d4:14:c8:0f rl0: [ITHREAD] ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xc020-0xc020 irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci6 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface ath0: Ethernet address: 00:16:ce:7f:d8:05 ath0: mac 7.8 phy 4.5 radio 5.6 cbb0: PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0xc0211000-0xc0211fff irq 20 at device 4.0 on pci6 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 cbb0: [ITHREAD] pci6: memory, flash at device 4.1 (no driver
