Mouse does not work with new Xorg, works with old Xorg (9.3-STABLE)

Tue Jul 22 14:45:07 UTC 2014

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On 07/22/2014 07:33, Pete French wrote:
> Yup, me again with another new xorg issue I am afraid. In this
> case its a lot more simple though - everything works, except for 
> the mouse. The mouse is fine in the conosle but as soon as I start
> X it moves the mouse to the centre of th screen and it stops
> moving.
> 
> I have moused disabled, and hald and dbus enabled - the config 
> which works on my other machine runnign new_xorg. The kernel has vt
> and kbdmux compiled into it, but is otherwise generic.
> 
> This is using the nex_xorg pkg repository. If I just use the
> default pkg repository all works fine.
> 
> Hopefully this is a quick fix, but it puzzles me as the config is
> the same as the machine I am typing this on. I didnt think new-xorg
> affected the mouse drivers actually.

Kill moused before starting X and your mouse will work.

I'm not sure why that works, but I started investigating and I think it
had something to do with what hald reports as the mouse device.

Also moused_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf seems to do nothing since
devd picks it up.   That's probably a bug since quietstart seems to be
ignoring the rc.conf entry.