FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 USB Mouse and Keyboard
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Oct 25 20:41:34 UTC 2011
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> Also by Benjamin Kaduk :
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> Has this computer successfully run other versions of FreeBSD with X?
> I seem to recall there can be odd interactions with hald, xorg.conf, and others. Some googling brings up http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html which seems to cover many of
> the relevant issues.
>
> -Ben Kaduk
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> After the above messages ,
> on the same computer , I have installed the FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 amd64 again .
>
> I have generated an xorg.conf file .
>
> Into the xorg.conf file and ServerLayout part , I have inserted
>
> Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
>
> The USB Mouse and Keyboard , Fluxbox started to work as expected in the graphical mode under X .
>
>
> Without the above statement about Option , the error message is :
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> (EE) config/hal : couldn't initialise context . unknown error (null)
This line appears if x11-servers/xorg-server was built with the HAL
option enabled.
> In FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 i386 , such a step is NOT necessary .
They should be the same. On i386, maybe xorg-server was built with the
HAL option disabled?
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