What is the Right Way($(D"o(B) to run X?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 18/03/2013, at 8:54, Don Lewis <truckman at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I don't recall if I disabled hald and changed xorg.conf to point to
> /dev/psm0 before I re-enabled moused.  I do know that hald is currently
> disabled and nothing obvious seems to be broken in Gnome.
> 
> I haven't had any issues with AllowEmptyInput so I never bothered to
> switch over to the preferred AutoAddDevices.

This sounds exactly like what I have, although I do find it odd that hal doesn't manage to open /dev/sysmouse and use that (even if it fails for /dev/ums* etc). lshal does show a mount device listed with /dev/sysmouse as the device name.

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