FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 USB Mouse and Keyboard

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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>>
>> 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?



I do not know because I am using downloaded .iso files as they are supplied
in mirrors without any modification .

Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk