[stable-9] Touchpad mouse stopped working

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tom Evans wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, A.J. "Fonz" van Werven
> <fonz at skysmurf.nl> wrote:
>> After moving from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE yesterday, the touchpad mouse on
>> my netbook stopped working. When I do
>> # /etc/rc.d/moused onestart
>> the pointer appears and can be moved for a second or two, then it stops
>> responding. Any thoughts?
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> FreeBSD ace.skysmurf.nl 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Thu May 17 10:49:00 CEST 2012     root at ace.skysmurf.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>
>
> Did you mean the mouse doesn't move in xorg, or on the console? If in
> xorg, have you seen this thread on x11@?
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-April/011756.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2012-May/011851.html
>
> The proposed solution is to set AutoAddDevices off, so that hald is
> not used to enumerate mice/keyboards, and instead rely on explicitly
> configuring them in your xorg.conf.
>
> This doesn't work for me, I need working hald as I plug and unplug
> keyboards and mice each time I take my laptop out of its dock,

There might be some hardware thing in your setup that requires hald, but 
I do manage to hot-connect external USB mice without HAL installed.  One 
notebook needed moused_enable, but that's all.  Can't recall whether 
that one even has InputDevice sections in xorg.conf.  I'll post the 
config in a bit.