What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput False EndSection I am pretty sure this used to be necessary, then

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section ServerFlags Option

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Mar 2013 12:07, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section ServerFlags Option

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:44, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote: so I think your setup is somehow broken. You didn't mention which version of xorg you are using. Very possibly :) I have xorg-server 1.7.7_6,1 Does lshal show any inputdevices? I see the following.. udi =

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:47, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: BTW I have dbus hald running. Have you read http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html ? I have read it in the past. I _am_ running hald and am happy to do so, but it now appears broken (this system did not need AEI

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:47, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: Does lshal show any inputdevices? I see the following.. snip Oops, I just pasted the keyboard entries instead of the mouse ones.. udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c404_noserial_if0' freebsd.device_file =

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: On 17/03/2013, at 22:44, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote: so I think your setup is somehow broken. You didn't mention which version of xorg you are using. Very possibly :) I have xorg-server 1.7.7_6,1

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:37:08PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 23:00, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote: Looks promising. Just to make sure, have you verified that hald is still running? Things can crash... Yep, it's still running. Have you tried to do the build from a clean environment? Not really, I can't just nuke the

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it show up working, but that's annoying and stupid (and not an option on other

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:37:08PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Don Lewis
On 17 Mar, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging