upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> Please
>> see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
>
> Just a side question: 5.4.2 Note 2 ? 5 states:
>
> 	You will have to reboot your machine to force
> 	hald to read this file.
>
> which refers to /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi
> that re-enables Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X.
>
> Is it really, really needed to reboot the machine? Can't
> HAL just be restarted? I always thought "reboot to make
> a minor setting work" was the domain of "Windows"...

I had the same question a while back:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=595146+0+archive/2009/freebsd-doc/20091101.freebsd-doc

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA