Help with possible HAL issue.

[Jason Selwitz]

Whoops, forgot to Copy the group.. Thanks again!

Jason

On 09/22/2014 18:02, Jason Selwitz wrote:
> 
> Hi Kevin..
> 
> your tip did the trick, rebuilt the keyboard/mouse drivers as well as
> enlightenment for completeness sake and looks like everything is back in
> action Thanks again for the help!
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> On 09/21/2014 23:48, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Jason,
>>
>> Sounds very similar to my system, a ThinkPad T520. Mine works fine with
>> HAL. I did have to rebuild the keyboard and mouse drivers to get them to
>> work. (I was already aware that it was a possibility, so I just rebuilt
>> them when the mouse was frozen.)
>>
>>
>> I'd try the rebuild first as it is fast and I think it is reasonably
>> likely to fix your problem.
>>
>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
>> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com <mailto:rkoberman at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Jason Selwitz <jselwitz at verizon.net
>> <mailto:jselwitz at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Kevin,
>>
>>       Thanks for getting back to me.. first off to answer a few of your
>>     questions yes I am using WITH_NEW_XORG, I typpically build
>>     everything from ports and I'm currently attempting to use a laptop
>>     keyboard and touchpad/touchpoint combo, also I use startx for
>>     startup. I'll gather the requested files and post a link for you to
>>     check them out, I will also try rebuilding the keyboard/mouse input
>>     drivers. thanks again!
>>
>>     Jason
>>
>>     On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>
>>         On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Jason Selwitz
>>         <jselwitz at verizon.net <mailto:jselwitz at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>
>>                 Hello, I was hoping someone here could lend a hand, I
>>         recently
>>               upgraded my xorg package to the latest and greatest and now
>>               while X does start it now dosen't seem to be accepting any
>>               keyboard and mouse input while previous versions of X semed to
>>               accept device discovery via HAL just fine, I was hoping
>>         someone
>>               might have some advice I'm running FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7, I
>>               can provide additional output as needed, thanks for the
>>               assistance!
>>
>>               Jason.
>>
>>
>>         Are you using WITH_NEW_XORG? What is in your xorg.conf? Can you
>>         provide an
>>         Xorg.0.log file? Did you build the X ports or use pkg to install
>>         them? Do
>>         you startx or ue a dislay managr (xdm, kdm, gdm, etc)? USB or
>>         laptop mouse
>>         and keyboard?
>>
>>         There have been several recent reports of problems with the
>>         keyboard and
>>         mouse but I m not sure that I have sen a common issue here. If
>>         you just
>>         moved to NEW_XORG and updated the port that went to a new
>>         version, you do
>>         need to rebuild/re-install the keyboard and mouse drivers even
>>         though they
>>         are not a new version.
>>         --
>>         R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
>>         E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com <mailto:rkoberman at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
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