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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:47:50 +0000
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X.org-update -> screen garbled / settings for xorg.conf?
Message-ID:  <20090131134750.GA66686@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4983713E.5010800@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20090130144614.GA4897@aurora.oekb.co.at> <20090130153128.GA82736@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <4983713E.5010800@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:29:34PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 03:46:14PM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Today I upgraded my system (ports) so I got x.org 7.4 installed.
> >>
> >> Given the various entries in /usr/ports/UPDATING about the recent
> >> updates for xorg I wonder what the correct settings/combinations are
> >> for my installation:
> >>
> >> I've got hald running as per /etc/rc.conf with hald_enable="YES" as
> >> well as moused (moused_enable=YES in rc.conf).
> > 
> > what??? where's hald_enable="YES" documented?
> > There's nothing about this in X, dbus, or hald manual pages.
> > Perhaps this is why my X servers won't work and dbus keeps complaining
> > that it cannot connect..
> > 
> 
> rc.conf(5) in the general sense and in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald specifically.

sure, what I meant is where is it documented that X requires hald?

thanks
anton

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