Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:20:29 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: chrisa@uvic.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386 Message-ID: <6201873e0909301220u3cfea5a2n59a576ca6d9d1009@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> References: <1b3000aab88ea400a8a60a56aea835c5.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca> <20090930073601.GA824@sandcat> <6900371da03b4f476e7ff154adb9e12a.squirrel@wm3.uvic.ca>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:11 PM, <chrisa@uvic.ca> wrote: > > I had similar troubles with hal. > > > > The easiest solutions is to get rid of hal. Deinstall it. The > xorg-package > > you can compile without hal (use make configure and uncheck hal) and it > > will work. > > > > Cheers > > herb langhans > > Thank you. > > I discovered that compiling all ports on the relevant machine made it > compile and start. Isn't it odd that the ones compiled on a slightly > different i386 machine didn't? Anyway, the mouse still doesn't work in X, > and from what I'm hearing, it's possible to get the mouse to work in X > without it, so I am going to get rid of hal. > > By the way, any ideas on why the mouse input mightn't work in X? It's a > usb mouse, but moused in text mode works with it. > > Cheers. > > My systems work well with hal. I find overall setup to be faster and smoother(at this point in time) with hal enabled although there is much adversity to it on this list. Do you have xf86-input-mouse installed? -- Adam Vande More
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