Need help untangling Xorg behavior on Haswell board, KMS, etc. etc.

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>
>  On 2013-07-23 14:59, Warren Block wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>>>
>>>  In general, running without a xorg.conf should work, but there are a lot
>>>> of different hardware and setups out there, and just because it works on
>>>> Linux does not mean it works on FreeBSD without xorg.conf.  If you want
>>>> to have more control of exactly what's going on, a config is probably to
>>>> prefer.
>>>> If you use xorg without HAL, you must have a config at least detailing
>>>> your input devices for them to work properly.
>>>>
>>>
>>> My experience is that input device sections are not needed unless custom
>>> settings are needed in them. X autodetects them fine without HAL.
>>>
>>
>> I've had trouble in the past, at least with mice...
>>
>
> Ah.  PS/2 mice, maybe?  I admit I have not tried one of those in a long,
> long time.
>

My T520 works well with the "PS/2 mouse". It's actually the TrackPoint
mouse, but it looks like a PS/2 mouse to the system.

I needed nothing in my config. I am using moused. The only thing in my
Xorg.conf file is a list of fonts that I have added.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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