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Old July 11th, 2009, 23:18
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My PS/2 keyboard works fine on console mode, but when I go into X windows or Gnome desktop the keyboard stopped working, my ps/2 mouse works just fine, I can open up terminal window but can't seem to type anything in. I am running 7.2 release that I downloaded a few days ago. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Old July 11th, 2009, 23:38
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I noticed a couple of times, the keyboard works right after Gnome starts up, I can type in Xterm window but then the keyboard stops working all together in about a minute or two.
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Old July 20th, 2009, 06:57
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My mouse and keyboard don't work at all. But when I add these lines to the head of my xorg.conf, they work.
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Section "ServerFlags"
        Option	"DontZap" "Off"
	Option  "AllowEmptyInput" "Off"
	Option  "AutoAddDevices"  "Off"
        Option  "AutoEnableDevices" "Off"
EndSection
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Old July 20th, 2009, 07:40
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That's because Xorg 7.4 uses HAL to detect keyboards and mice. Just add to /etc/rc.conf:
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hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
You'll need those anyway for KDE, GNOME and XFCE.
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