Mouse and keyboard don't work in Xorg 7.4

[Manolis Kiagias]

Andrey Zhidenkov wrote:
> I've installed FreeBSD 7.2 with Xorg 7.4 server, but mouse (usb)
> and keyboard don't work. when I start X server the only way to exit
> is Ctrl-Alt-F* and kill the process.
>
> I've find out that Xorg now uses hal and dbus to configure mouse and
> maybe this is a problem.
>   

It will probably work fine if you add the following two lines into
/etc/rc.conf and reboot:

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

Have  a look at the updated Handbook section that describes this
procedure in more detail:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html