problems with hal in freebsd 7.2 i386

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, chrisa at uvic.ca wrote:
>>> Created a new xorg.conf since it's working with the autoconfig now.
>>
>> And what is in it?
>
> Only this:
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>        option  "AutoAddDevices"        "off"
>        option  "AllowEmptyInput"       "off"
> EndSection
>
> and nothing else.

> It does indeed appear broken. The keyboard and mouse still work, though,
> which doesn't make any sense to me. I don't have any InputDevice sections,
> as you can see, so if hal isn't configuring the keyboard and mouse, what
> is?

X, just like it's doing for the monitor and video card.  Those two lines 
pretty much say "ignore hal and use the standard keyboard and mouse 
drivers".

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA