X broken after recent updates

[Tom Evans]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>        For many years, X on FreeBSD has (mostly) Just Worked(tm), or
> the problem I could diagnose with my own limited abilities.
>        However, after the latest round of updates it no longer does.
> Specifically, it no longer seems to recognize input from mouse or
> keyboard.
>        System is:
>
> FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #0: Tue Aug 23 10:07:23 EDT 2011 amd64
>
> <snip>
>
>        Option  "AllowEmptyInput"               "on"
>        Option  "AutoAddDevices"                "on"

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html

You shouldn't need either of those options specified. Are you using hald?

Cheers

Tom