From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 17 12:18:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F595232 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:18:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10B7E98 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:18:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp14-2-9-156.lns21.adl2.internode.on.net [14.2.9.156]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r2HCHm90017528 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:47:53 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Re=3A_What_is_the_Right_Way=28=99=29_to_run_X?= =?windows-1252?Q?=3F?= Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:47:47 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <82EEB5DC-DD57-4EC3-936A-2F28C4BAF0B4@dons.net.au> To: Andreas Nilsson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org stable" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:18:05 -0000 On 17/03/2013, at 22:44, Andreas Nilsson 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 =3D '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0' freebsd.driver =3D 'atkbdc' (string) freebsd.unit =3D 0 (0x0) (int) info.parent =3D '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string) info.product =3D 'Keyboard controller (i8042)' (string) info.subsystem =3D 'platform' (string) info.udi =3D '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0' (string) platform.id =3D 'atkbdc.0' (string) pnp.description =3D 'IBM Enhanced (101/102-key, PS/2 mouse support)' = (string) pnp.id =3D 'PNP0303' (string) udi =3D '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbd_0' freebsd.device_file =3D '/dev/atkbd0' (string) freebsd.driver =3D 'atkbd' (string) freebsd.unit =3D 0 (0x0) (int) info.addons.singleton =3D {'hald-addon-input'} (string list) info.capabilities =3D {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keys', = 'button'} (string list) info.category =3D 'input' (string) info.parent =3D '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbdc_0' (string) info.product =3D 'AT Keyboard' (string) info.subsystem =3D 'platform' (string) info.udi =3D '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbd_0' (string) input.device =3D '' (string) input.x11_driver =3D 'kbd' (string) platform.id =3D 'atkbd.0' (string) > Have you tried to do the build from a clean environment? Not really, I can't just nuke the existing packages and do an install (I = suppose I could do it in a chroot). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C