Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems

[Da Rock]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 23:32 -0500, Antonio Rieser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Whatever I did before, it had no effect.  The temporary fix, for some
> reason, has been to deactivate kdm.  Can anyone explain this?

For starters hald should probably be disabled in rc.conf:
hald_enable="NO".

That said; how are you disabling kdm? Whats working now?

This could be a case of root and user permissions, once one has a hold
of the device another may not be able to control it and permissions are
not passed on.