Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:41:50 GMT From: "r. clayton" <rclayton@monmouth.edu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/162154: Handbook section 6.4.2 misordering. Message-ID: <201110291641.p9TGfoOg093732@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201110291650.p9TGo1dj025123@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 162154 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Handbook section 6.4.2 misordering. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 29 16:50:01 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: r. clayton >Release: 8.2 >Organization: monmouth u. >Environment: FreeBSD WestRunton 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: The two paragraphs As of version 7.3, Xorg can often work without any configuration file by simply typing at prompt: % startx Starting with version 7.4, Xorg can use HAL to autodetect keyboards and mice. The sysutils/hal and devel/dbus ports are installed as dependencies of x11/xorg, but must be enabled by the following entries in the /etc/rc.conf file: hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" These services should be started (either manually or by rebooting) before further Xorg configuration is attempted. in section 6.4.2 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html are in reverse order. My experience has been running startx without enabling hald and dbus leaves me without a mouse or keyboard. >How-To-Repeat: Install xorg from ports, stop reading section 6.4 after the startx part, run startx. >Fix: It might be more accurate and helpful to flip the two paragraphs, something like Starting with version 7.4, Xorg can use HAL to autodetect keyboards and mice. The sysutils/hal and devel/dbus ports are installed as dependencies of x11/xorg, but must be enabled by the following entries in the /etc/rc.conf file: hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" These services should be started (either manually or by rebooting) before further Xorg configuration is attempted. As of version 7.3, Xorg can often work without any configuration file by simply typing at prompt: % startx with suitable adjustments to the sentence starting "These services..." to indicate that not only should these services be enabled before configuration, but before using X11 at all. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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