From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 30 22:48:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B179E1065670 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:48:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677828FC12 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8UMm9qO082109; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:48:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n8UMm9Z3082106; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:48:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:48:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: CmdLnKid In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1b3000aab88ea400a8a60a56aea835c5.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <6201873e0909301220u3cfea5a2n59a576ca6d9d1009@mail.gmail.com> <340fe87c23ba55b89024231e59dad7f1.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:48:09 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chrisa@uvic.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:48:10 -0000 On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, CmdLnKid wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36 -0000, chrisa wrote: >> (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. These are normal messages. (II)nformation, not (EE)rror. >> even though the mouse and keyboard both work now. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Just wanted to emphasize that. >> 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. > > Add the following to your X11 config and see what you come up with. > > Section "ServerFlags" > option "AutoAddDevices" "off" > option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > EndSection Why? Several months ago, these were used to work around bugs. Shortly afterwards, the bugs were fixed. Now the use of those options is causing problems more often than solving them. The time to add those options is when xorg doesn't work without them. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA