8.0-BETA-4: no mouse or keyboard in X.

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 13 10:49:25 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 15:29 +1000, Dave Hardman wrote:
> I upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0-BETA4. Now X will not receive input
> from either the mouse or keyboard. When this has happened in 7.1
> or 7.2 it was fixed by running hal. The keyboard, mouse and hal
> are all working. I did not configure X, the xorg.conf file was
> auto generated when X was first started.
> 
>     I have tried a few things; new xorg.conf with Xorg -configure, 
> putting config files, which I found in a mailing list, in
> /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy. Using a different window manager.
> Nothing worked.
> 
>     Theres nothing in the log files that I recognise. Xorg.log
> reported "config/hal Adding input device AT Keyboard."
> 
>     Any suggestions
> 
>     I also noticed the fuse.ko will not load, reporting "Exec
> format error."

This suggests that you have not rebuilt your ports.  At a minumum you
need to rebuild fuse and hal, though I strongly suggest that you rebuild
everything.

robert.

> dave at loc:/usr/home/dave $ uname -a
> FreeBSD loc.alh.ost 8.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 #0: Sun Sep  6 04:44:31 UTC 2009     root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> Thanks Dave
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