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You don't need the module for serial. The issue might be in your serial chipset drivers.

Did you read the manual page? You have to run cap_mkdb on the login.conf file after changing it:

The kernel module is really only for wacom tablets. To use the Xorg driver you have to run Xorg without HAL support. Bartosz is working on following the recent Xorg changes, but a lot of things have happened there, so it will take some time for the driver to catch up with that stuff.

:D The -u= comment was actually only meant as an afterthought. Never mind.

It seems like I already corrected the syntax in my first post.

No, don't uncomment that. That the files in /tmp exist proves that they're used. Why do you assume that the config file is not used?

-u means update an existing mount. Maybe you should leave it in, I don't know how this gnome stuff works, but the = behind it should be left out. What do the options look like, now?

longnames,-L=fr_FR.UTF-8,-D=CP850 Whatever made you put in -u=?

It does go into make.conf. Some ports unfortunately ignore CC maybe that's the problem here. After you try compiling, do you have a file /tmp/buildflags.tmp.mk.root? This basically should contain your buildflags.conf converted into make syntax. If it does not exist something is wrong with...

All you need to do is slice and partition the hard drive and run make installkernel installworld and mergemster.

Why don't you simply build the system you want instead of installing one and rebuilding it?

Have you run cap_mkdb? Are you talking about a plain console? There's something in the ports, but it only works on i386.

This is not the point. Not using it is not a solution to its problems. Barely any experienced user uses sysinstall. This should tell us all something about the quality of its interface.

Run make config-recursive on the xorg meta-port and turn everything off you do not need.

The double cursor thing is an absolute breach of user expectations. I never know which cursor is the active one.

To change a MAC address is so easy. Even on Windows 95 this was easily done by an inexperienced user (I'm talking about myself, consider that back then I was barely a teenager). So I wonder why you'd want to use MAC-based filtering. On layer 3 you can be certain that certain IPs come from a...

I use gdb. But really only to read backtraces.

You're right, it would be more FreeBSD-compatible. BTW, haldaemon doesn't even have the access rights to mess with these devices on my system. How does it cause a panic by messing with devices it cannot even access? You've been using hald for a while and it works fine for you. But you've seen...

You can change that in your /etc/login.conf (login.conf). The usual way is to create groups named german, russian ... and set things up for these groups in the login.conf file. Alternatively every user can override the system settings in the file ~/.login_conf.

Today's rant is about HAL (hardware abstraction layer). Something that probably burns under the fingernails of many people. In my understanding an abstraction layer is added to make the overlying layer transparently support different underlying layers. So in my understanding the purpose of...