Re: X not responding
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:52:54 Andy Balholm wrote: I am having a problem with Xorg under FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE and 8.1 RC1: When I type startx, the X server starts, and some xterm windows open, but it will not respond to keyboard or mouse input. The mouse pointer won't move, and the only keyboard input that does anything is CTRL-ALT-F1 etc. to switch virtual terminals. If I install FreeBSD 7.1, which installs Xorg straight from the installation CD, it works fine. Under version 8, I've tried installing from ports and packages, and I get this problem. When I first had this problem, I was running it under VirtualBox, so I thought maybe it was because VirtualBox's FreeBSD support is incomplete. But now I've tried it on real PC hardware, and I have the same problem. Obviously some people must be running X under FreeBSD 8, so I must be doing something wrong in my installation or configuration, but I can't guess what it is. Andy Balholm (509) 276-2065 a...@balholm.com ___ 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 Here it looks like you have made some mistakes in the configuring file for X. You did not mention that you have configured it. After X has been installed you must go into the X configuration file and configure your keyboard and mouse etc for use with it. When I installed X on my version 7 BSD I had to use some time tuning this file so X would work properly. The file gives you alternatives like which language keyboard you use and how your mouse works and other settings. Regards Richard Farnes ___ 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: X not responding
On 6/22/10 1:52 PM, Andy Balholm wrote: I am having a problem with Xorg under FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE and 8.1 RC1: When I type startx, the X server starts, and some xterm windows open, but it will not respond to keyboard or mouse input. The mouse pointer won't move, and the only keyboard input that does anything is CTRL-ALT-F1 etc. to switch virtual terminals. If I install FreeBSD 7.1, which installs Xorg straight from the installation CD, it works fine. Under version 8, I've tried installing from ports and packages, and I get this problem. When I first had this problem, I was running it under VirtualBox, so I thought maybe it was because VirtualBox's FreeBSD support is incomplete. But now I've tried it on real PC hardware, and I have the same problem. Obviously some people must be running X under FreeBSD 8, so I must be doing something wrong in my installation or configuration, but I can't guess what it is. Try adding the following to xorg.conf: Section ServerFlags option AllowEmptyInput off option AutoAddDevices off EndSection Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ 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: X not responding
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Andy Balholm wrote: I am having a problem with Xorg under FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE and 8.1 RC1: When I type startx, the X server starts, and some xterm windows open, but it will not respond to keyboard or mouse input. The mouse pointer won't move, and the only keyboard input that does anything is CTRL-ALT-F1 etc. to switch virtual terminals. Enable dbus and hal in rc.conf as shown here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html If you want to use X without hal for input device detection, add Option AutoAddDevices Off to the ServerLayout section. Do not set the AllowEmptyInput option, it is unnecessary and problematic. Or you can configure the xorg-server port without hal. ___ 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: X not responding
Thanks. That fixed it. I guess I should have read the handbook more. Andy Balholm (509) 276-2065 a...@balholm.com On Jun 22, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Andy Balholm wrote: I am having a problem with Xorg under FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE and 8.1 RC1: When I type startx, the X server starts, and some xterm windows open, but it will not respond to keyboard or mouse input. The mouse pointer won't move, and the only keyboard input that does anything is CTRL-ALT-F1 etc. to switch virtual terminals. Enable dbus and hal in rc.conf as shown here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html If you want to use X without hal for input device detection, add Option AutoAddDevices Off to the ServerLayout section. Do not set the AllowEmptyInput option, it is unnecessary and problematic. Or you can configure the xorg-server port without hal. ___ 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
