[Solved] Mouse & keyboard don't work after upgrade to X.org 7.4

borish · #1 June 11th, 2009, 18:11

Hi,

I'm posting this because I've seen that others had similar problems.

Today, I upgraded to FBSD 7.2. After starting the X-server, I noticed that neither mouse nor keyboard input worked.

The solution is to add the line

Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"

in Section "ServerFlags".

I wonder what happened to X.org 7.4. Is it a new feature to disable mouse and keyboard by default?

**SirDice** · #2 June 11th, 2009, 18:20

It's because Xorg now relies on HAL to detect the mouse and keyboard.
This is different from previous versions.

Hence, you have to make sure hald is running before starting X.

borish · #3 June 12th, 2009, 09:55

Now that I ve enabled HAL and DBUS, my German keyboard doesn t work any more. I found a useful article on that:

http://blogmal.42.org/tidbits/xorg-hald.story

Is HAL just an annoyance or does it have any use

**SirDice** · #4 June 12th, 2009, 10:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by borish

Is HAL just an annoyance or does it have any use

Learn to live with it. Gnome, KDE and Xfce all depend on HAL too.

ale · #5 June 12th, 2009, 22:22

The solution was here in the forum too, e.g. here

You can build xorg-server WITHOUT_HAL if you want.

BJwojnowski · #6 October 8th, 2011, 04:32

I have done some digging in the forum to find out why when I use startx on the FreeBSD system 8.2 the windows appear but there is no input from keyboard or mouse in the windows. In the digging I found several methods to possibly resolve the problem. It did not. What can I do?

**wblock@** · #7 October 8th, 2011, 05:10

The Handbook X11 chapter advises using hal. The other option is to turn off AutoAddDevices in the ServerLayout section:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
...
        Option       "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
EndSection

BJwojnowski · #8 October 8th, 2011, 12:55

I have done both suggestions that you have offered and the problem still exists.

**wblock@** · #9 October 8th, 2011, 13:29

Please put your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf on pastebin.com and post the links.

BJwojnowski · #10 October 9th, 2011, 14:34

I rebooted and reinstalled FreeBSD and then place the hald and dbus enable lines in /etc/rc.conf and voila it worked. Thank you for your assistance.

masmidow · #11 October 13th, 2011, 21:03

I have read all of the advise and tried all suggestions, but my mouse will simply not respond. May someone please assist me.

I am using gnome2 and the latest version of Xorg as of 10/13/2011. I have done the rc.conf hald and dbus lines.

Any assistance would be great. Do you need any more info?

Mike

**wblock@** · #12 October 13th, 2011, 21:19

The Handbook mentions restarting after adding lines to enable dbus and hald to /etc/rc.conf. Did you do that, or start them manually?

If it's a PS/2 mouse, moused(8) is needed, too.

masmidow · #13 October 13th, 2011, 21:25

I went to sysinstall and enabled the mouse. Worked.

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