Xorg keyboard and mouse hung

[Ben Stuyts]

On 10 jun 2009, at 18:58, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> --On Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:02:39 -0500 Ben Stuyts <ben at altesco.nl 
> > wrote:
>
>> I've upgrade two FreeBSD 7-stable workstations to the latest kernel/
>> world of today, and now the mouse and keyboard don't react anymore in
>> the Xorg / KDE login window. Mouse doesn't move, keyboard characters
>> don't appear in the login prompt. I can still switch back with ctl- 
>> alt-
>> F1 to a console login, and there both the keyboard and mouse still  
>> work.
>>
>> I have attached dmesg.boot and Xorg.0.log. I'm not using a xorg.conf
>> as the default settings used to work fine.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Sure.  In your Xorg.0.log file:
>
> "(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
> (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
> (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
> (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
> 	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable  
> AllowEmptyInput"
>
> add dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf.  Then  
> start them both manually (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start and /usr/ 
> local/etc/rc.d/dbus start).  Then restart X (Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc)

I missed that somehow in UPDATING. Thanks!

Kind regards,
Ben