Re: mouse dies when kdm is triggered

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On 8/3/10 8:25 AM, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Ian Smith wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Warren Block wrote:
>> >
>> > In today's world, using AllowEmptyInput Off is asking for input
>> problems.
>> > It's the wrong way to disable hal for input device detection. AEI
>> also hates
>> > kittens and puppies and will throw garbage on your lawn.
>>
>> So what's the recipe for the current RIGHT way to disable using hal and
>> dbus, configuring xorg.conf appropriately?  My Thinkpad T23 running
>> 7.2-STABLE and 8.0-RELEASE systems is currently broken, or I could refer
>> to how I did it for them, costing quite some research pain at the time.
> 
> Add Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" to the ServerLayout or ServerFlags
> section.  That prevents xorg from adding hal-detected devices, even if
> hal is running.
> 
> The other option is to build xorg-server without hal support:
>   # cd /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server; make config
> 
> Turn off the HAL option and rebuild/reinstall the port.  If you do that,
> a reminder comment about it in xorg.conf could be a good idea.  Or just
> include the AutoAddDevices option anyway; I doubt xorg-server without
> hal support would complain about it, but can't recall testing that.
> 

Also note that pgj@ picked up a PR to mention this in the FAQ:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=147095

Regards,

- -- 
Glen Barber
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