Re: xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

2009-02-01 Thread Robert Noland
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 14:10 -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote: > Sebastien Chassot wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 17:19 +, Daniel Bye wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Sebastien Chassot wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I've upgrade to xorg7.4 and apparently keyboard and

Re: Soekris 4801 hangs (was Re: Hangs, maybe a clue)

2009-02-01 Thread Pete Carah
I fixed the problem on my 4801's by having noticed a correlation with psm and hangs on my laptop, and thought there may be a LOR or such involving the keyboard driver and/or kbdmux. Since a 4801 has no need of those drivers, but *does* contain the hardware they control, just with no external pe

Re: Puzzling change in performance

2009-02-01 Thread Borja Marcos
On Jan 31, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Robert Watson wrote: There are basically three ways to go about exploring this, none particularly good: (1) Do a more formal before and after analysis of performance on the box, perhaps using tools like kernel profiling, hwpmc, dtrace, etc. Machine in prod

Re: xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

2009-02-01 Thread Joe Kelsey
Sebastien Chassot wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 17:19 +, Daniel Bye wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Sebastien Chassot wrote: Hi, I've upgrade to xorg7.4 and apparently keyboard and mouse are now working with hald. In xorg.conf changing "old" keybord config as no ef

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:25:21PM -0500 I heard the voice of Alex Goncharov, and lo! it spake thus: > > Csup can only go forward -- or can it go back?) You can specify a date in a supfile since, like, ever. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administra

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Matthew (Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:48:15 -0600) * | On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:25:21PM -0500 I heard the voice of | Alex Goncharov, and lo! it spake thus: | > Csup can only go forward -- or can it go back?) | | You can specify a date in a supfile since, like, ever. `-

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- Alexandre \ (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:03:06 -0500) * | > When I install the old packages, I can no longer rebuild and install | > new (say `csup'ed on 2009-03-01) port components, as one whole -- I | > can only do it selectively, excluding from the upgrade most | > X-dependent things. That suc

Re: xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

2009-02-01 Thread Sebastien Chassot
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 17:19 +, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Sebastien Chassot wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've upgrade to xorg7.4 and apparently keyboard and mouse are now > > working with hald. > > > > In xorg.conf changing "old" keybord config as no effect

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 16:25 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: > ,--- You/vehemens (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:53:58 -0800) * > | In general when upgrading, you take your chances. If a port upgrade > | fails, you should fall back to what worked. > > So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS component) port i

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- I/Alex (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:11:21 -0500) * | Knowing about specific things now fixed for specific users is very | encouraging. | | Thanks a lot! `-* ,--- You/Matt (Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:17:16 +) * | I had better post to the lists exactl

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Matt Dawson
On Sunday 01 February 2009 13:11:21 Alex Goncharov wrote: > On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:33:56 + I wrote: > | That is not to say the new Xorg doesn't work. The only problems I've > | seen on Radeons needed a couple of options lines in xorg.conf due to > | the hald/dbus/xorg race and an fdi to make the