Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:04:22 -0600, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On Friday, December 11, 2009 07:59:00 -0600 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose this falls under the works for me category - I haven't ever used HAL on FreeBSD. I have, and I would

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:24:29 -0600, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On December 12, 2009 10:31:59 AM -0600 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: The FreeBSD OS, on the other hand, follows approach (a) and aids the user with (b) - the defaults are intendedly and wisely

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 12, 2009 10:31:59 AM -0600 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: The FreeBSD OS, on the other hand, follows approach (a) and aids the user with (b) - the defaults are intendedly and wisely chosen, so they usually don't cause problems, because they don't assume something stupid, like

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 11 December 2009 08:17:06 Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Please see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Just a side

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-11 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote: I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-11 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote: I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of fbsd since 2.2.6, but

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-11 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Please see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Just a side question: 5.4.2 Note 2 ?

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-11 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 11, 2009 07:59:00 -0600 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose this falls under the works for me category - I haven't ever used HAL on FreeBSD. I have, and I would say that it's not quite ready for primetime. So I'm back to manual configuration and happy

upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread mpd
I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of fbsd since 2.2.6, but I'm about to drop it due to this. This is horrible. Please respond directly. I dropped this list in the '90s. peace, -mpd

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote: I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of fbsd since 2.2.6, but I'm about to drop it due to this. This is horrible. Since you

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread mpd
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:19:43PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote: I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of fbsd since 2.2.6, but

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 PM, mpd m...@jesters-court.net wrote: I just updated my system from 7.2 to 8.0 STABLE. What do I need to do to make my mouse work in X again? This system has an unbroken chain of fbsd since 2.2.6, but I'm about to drop it due

Re: upgraded to 8, no mouse is broken

2009-12-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:38:04 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Please see the Handbook section on X11 configuration instead: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Just a side question: 5.4.2 Note 2 ยง 5 states: You will have to