On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote: >> This doesn't work for me, I need working hald as I plug and unplug >> keyboards and mice each time I take my laptop out of its dock, > > > There might be some hardware thing in your setup that requires hald, but I > do manage to hot-connect external USB mice without HAL installed. One > notebook needed moused_enable, but that's all. Can't recall whether that > one even has InputDevice sections in xorg.conf. I'll post the config in a > bit.
Yes, moused is exceptional in that regard, but my main issue is attaching/detaching keyboards. Most of my time, I use a PS/2 Model M, connected to a laptop dock with a USB<->PS/2 adaptor. I need that when I undock, I can use the laptop keyboard, and when I redock, that I get back my external keyboard. I suppose the equivalent to sysmouse/moused is kbdmux, but with hald and older Xorg, this did just DTRT. Cheers Tom PS: I just read to the end of the thread, Warren your config looks interesting if it can handle hotplugging keyboards. I will give this a try this evening, I also want to do some testing to see if the state in hald changes between xorg restarts. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
