no input under virtualbox

[StevenD]

I'm running FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p7 as a guest under VirtualBox 4.3.12, and cant' get X11 working inside it. My host OS is Windows 8.1. I have installed guest additions from the package virtualbox-ose-additions-4.3.12 (though the issue was the same without it).

I've run Xorg -configure, which detected vboxvideo, and I followed the directions here to have it use vboxmouse, then copied the resulting file to/etc/X11/xorg.conf.

When I run startx, I see a normal X screen inside my VM window, with two xterms, a clock, and an i-beam cursor, but it doesn't respond to mouse or keyboard, even when I click in the window to let the VM capture the mouse. I can't make X notice any input, though I can use Alt-F1 to switch to a different screen within the VM to kill X.

Xorg.0.log file

Some VM settings

Thanks for any help!

 

[wblock@]

Rename or remove the xorg.conf file. It often does more harm than good. X will run without it, locating and autoconfiguring devices.

 

[StevenD]

Thanks, unfortunately doing that has no effect on the problem. Still no input.

 

[bsdkeith]

Check that your /etc/rc.conf has

hald_enable="YES"

&

dbus_enable="YES"

 

[wblock@]

Oh, that too. I forgot that is still the default. Still needed for Gnome and KDE, too.

 

[StevenD]

Thanks, that fixed it!

But maybe the FreeBSD handbook page on running FreeBSD under VirtualBox should mention those settings? It mentions other settings for rc.conf but not those.

 

[wblock@]

Well, it's really mentioned in the X11 section. But we could link to that. Please submit a bug and I will take it.

 

[StevenD]

I added it as bug 190829. Thanks again for your help!

 

[tzoi516]

If Xorg was installed with devd option and not HAL then the mouse would've worked - I believe it's a either/or option.