Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Saturday, December 05, 2009 11:49:04 -0600 Warren Block 
<wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
> Try manually configuring mouse and keyboard in xorg.conf again, but only
> with AutoAddDevices Off, no AllowEmptyInput line.  The xorg.conf man
> page says "If AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using the kbd, mouse, or
> vmmouse driver are ignored."
>

Warren, thanks.  This solved my problem.  I have no idea why hald stopped 
working, but I was able to overcome the problem by manually configuring the 
mouse and keyboard in xorg.conf and adding Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" to the 
ServerFlags section.

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