I cannot use input devices if there is /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

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sw2wolf

If there is /etc/X11/xorg.conf produced by nvidia-xconfig, then I cannot use the keyboard and the mouse. It works without xorg.conf but X will not use the nvidia driver installed from /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver.

Why is it so?
 
Code: 
>cat xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 285.05.09  (root@mybsd.zsoft.com)  2012年 4月 9日 星期一 07时45分02秒 UTC

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
    VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Sincerely!
 
Remove the InputDevice entries from ServerLayout, and remove the two InputDevice sections. This will let X autodetect them.

Adding
Code: 
Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
to the ServerLayout section will prevent HAL from being used for autodetection or hotplugging.
 
wblock@ said:
Remove the InputDevice entries from ServerLayout, and remove the two InputDevice sections. This will let X autodetect them.

Adding
Code: 
Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
to the ServerLayout section will prevent HAL from being used for autodetection or hotplugging.
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It works! Thank you. BTW, I finally decided to remove hal and dbus.
 
Great! Please mark the thread "solved".

Depending on the desktop environment, dbus can be useful and hal might be required. But HAL doesn't have to be used by the xorg server.
 
I had the some issue, but now I can't configure my keyboard layout. I tried to edit my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-keyboard-layout.conf file
Code: 
Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "keyboard-layout"
	Driver "evdev"
	MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
	Option "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection
but it doesn't work.
Can anybody help me?
 
That's a newer-style config, which I haven't tried. evdev is a Linux-only driver, too.

I think you can put the layout option in a standard keyboard InputDevice entry:
Code: 
Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier "Keyboard0"
       Driver     "kbd"
       Option     "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

Untested. Also, see the Handbook X11 Config section.
 
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