FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Walter Hurry wrote:

> Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to
> FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD
> is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to
> work.
>
> I have scoured the handbook, and Googled, but to no avail.
>
> This is 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 - fully updated.
>
> I don't need the mouse in consoles, but I do want it in X.
>
> Here is my xorg.conf in its entirety:

There are duplicated sections in the output provided.

> ##################################
> Section "ServerLayout"
>    Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
>    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>    Option         "Clone" "off"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option         "AutoAddDevices" "On"
> EndSection

Setting AutoAddDevices on means to use HAL for mouse detection.  Is HAL 
running?

On one notebook, I had to set moused_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf before 
both the touchpad and an external mouse would work.