under X, frozen keys, no mouse

Masoom Shaikh masoom.shaikh at gmail.com
Mon Apr 5 12:59:21 UTC 2010


On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Henry Olyer <henry.olyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see:
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> Setting master
> xclock: not found
> Dropping master
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> While the root screen has:
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> drm0: <Intel i845G GMCH>  on vgapci0
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> vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
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> info:  [drm]  AGP at 0xf0000000 128NB
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> info:  [drm]  Initialized i915 1.6.0
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> I have:
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> hald_enable=YES
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> in the boot up conf file (/boot/loader.conf)

this line was advised to be placed in /etc/rc.conf, NOT /boot/loader.conf
or you did a typo while writing this mail ?

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> and
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> Option "AutoAddDevice" Off
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> Option "IgnoreEmptyInput" Off
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> in the xorg.conf file
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> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer <henry.olyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box.  It has a built-in video
>> > card,
>> > this isn't a top of the line superfast machine.
>> >
>> > But it is important for me to press it into service.
>> >
>> > I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but no luck.
>> >
>> > so now my questions...
>> >
>> > Will FBSD 7.3 make use of xf86cfg or some such program.  I ask because
>> > the X
>> > --configure command has never worked for me;  Not on any of five
>> > different
>> > machines I've put FBSD on.
>> >
>> > I'm not trying to do a sophisticated install either -- and though I've
>> > decided against running OpenBSD, the default install put's up X
>> > perfectly...  (Why??)
>> >
>> > wish I knew more...
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>> add this line to your rc.conf
>> hald_enable="YES"
>> and restart your machine
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