Mouse works in shell but NOT in x.org

[hajen]

Hello!

I installed FreeBSD on my computer and proceeded to setup X. FreeBSD found my hardware without problems, and the shell ran with mouse support. So i entered the command advised this site:

# xorg -configure

I then proceeded with:

# xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro

Which made X display the test screen with diagonal lines and the cross, only the cross does not move with the mouse. When exiting to the shell again, the mouse works again.

I did try to change hald_enable and dbus_enable and reboot, and even AutoAddDevices to false, but it didnt change anything. Any solutions?

[SirDice]

Just remove the xorg.conf.new.

Make sure /etc/rc.conf has these:

hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"


And try again. If it fails have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

[hajen]

Thank you!

In the end i solved my problem by insterting "AllowEmptyInput" "false" in my xorg.conf. My mouse now works fine. I'm still not sure what the problem was though.

[phoenix]

The "problem" was that the X.org team changed the way input devices are probed and connected in recent versions of X.org. Now, everything depends on HAL and is auto-configured. But, it doesn't always work out-of-the-box on non-Linux systems. I believe there's a note about this in /usr/ports/UPDATING.

[SirDice]

Having no xorg.conf and making sure hald/dbus are running usually works.

Or remove the current mouse and keyboard InputDevices from xorg.conf. Mine doesn't have any as they're detected by hal.