mouse dies when kdm is triggered

[Thomas Donnelly]

Adding to what Glen said in regards to /usr/ports/UPDATING Make sure that

hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"


are part of your /etc/rc.conf
and reboot.

-=Tom

On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:28:14 -0500, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 8/2/10 4:46 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>> I have an AMD-64 laptop, and have 8.1-AMD64 loaded on it.
>>  From the CLI, the mouse (enabled thru rc.conf) seems to
>> work fine <altho you can't actually USE the mouse on the CLI>.
>> It's a touchpad mouse, Asus M70V laptop.
>>
>> When I trigger the GUI (with KDM), the appropriate login
>> screen loads, but the mouse is dead and so is the keyboard.
>>
>> I have to press the power button just to get the machine to
>> power down.
>>
>> Suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf generated?  (It does not exist by  
> default.)
>
> Also, have a look at the 20090123 entry of /usr/ports/UPDATING.
>
> Regards,
>


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