mouse not working - X or console

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 04:08:42 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist at gmail.com>wrote:

> > Do you have
> >
> > moused_enable="YES"
> >
> > in /etc/rc.conf?
> >
> > Do you have xorg drivers installed for kb and mouse?
> >
> > eg
> >
> > xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2_2
> > xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0_6
> >
>
> After some work on IRC I got to the following:
> I have X compiled WITH hald.
> dbus and hald are enabled and running
> All relevant drivers are installed.
> /dev/sysmouse exists.
>
> The mouse works for a tiny bit and then fails.
>
> Its a laptop mouse - but it might be connected to the USB bus; 8.0 has
> better support for USB so I'm running freebsd-update currently to
> determine if it fixes the problem.
>
> --
> Eitan Adler
>
>
/var/log/Xorg.0.log would be help as well.

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Adam Vande More


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