Re: FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 USB Mouse and Keyboard

From: Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:41:32 -0600 (MDT)
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:

> Also by Benjamin Kaduk :
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> --------------------------
> 
> 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 :
> 
> (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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