Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems
Rainer Hurling
rhurlin at gwdg.de
Thu Feb 5 00:29:38 PST 2009
I think it should be sufficient to set hald_enable=FALSE in etc/rc.conf
to deactivate hald instead of chmod usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald.
Rainer
Am 04.02.2009 05:23 (UTC+1) schrieb Antonio Rieser:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a million for your help. Many thanks to Bartosz, too! Just to
> be sure I understood how to deactivate hald, I ran (as root) the
> command
>
> chmod -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald
>
> which should prevent it from running in the future, then, for this session
>
> pkill hald
>
> That should do it, right?
>
> Also, I reported earlier that everything seems to be normal if I boot
> with the tablet plugged in, but that's not always true. I now think
> that if I log in and out enough I get the same error messages.
>
> I have enclosed my Device Section of /etc/X11/Xorg.conf below.
>
> All the best,
>
> Tony
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Section "Device"
> ### Available Driver options are:-
> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> ### [arg]: arg optional
> #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
> #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
> #Option "ColorKey" # <i>
> #Option "CacheLines" # <i>
> #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
> #Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
> #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
> #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
> #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
> #Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "intel"
> VendorName "Intel Corporation"
> BoardName "82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device"
> BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
> Option "Accel" "On"
> EndSection
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
>> Antonio Rieser wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 on an ACER Aspire
>>> 1680 laptop. I'm running KDE 3.5 and the most recent Xorg port with a
>>> Wacom Bamboo tablet and the wacom driver from the ports collection. I
>>> have the following problems with the tablet and mouse: ...
>> Just to keep you up to date, Bartosz is on it. Of course, I cannot give
>> you a schedule. With the involvement of hald things seem to get much
>> more complicated. It might be a temporary solution to deactivate
>> hald support.
>>
>> Regards
>>
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