Mouse and keyboard don't work in Xorg 7.4

[herbert langhans]

If you dont need it for another reason, you can compile xorg-server without hal (#make config). Mouse and keyboard works without it too. This solved all such problems on my laptop.

Cheers
herb langhans

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:52:24PM +0400, 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.
> 
> #tail /var/log/messages
> 
> Oct 19 22:10:14 freebsd kernel: info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
> Oct 19 22:10:14 freebsd kernel: drm0: [ITHREAD]
> Oct 19 22:10:34 freebsd kernel: info: [drm] Num pipes: 1
> Oct 19 22:35:02 freebsd hald[48486]: 22:35:02.636 [E] hald_dbus.c:5747: dbus_bus_get(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
> Oct 19 22:36:03 freebsd kernel: info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> Oct 19 22:36:03 freebsd kernel: info: [drm] Loading R500 Microcode
> Oct 19 22:36:03 freebsd kernel: info: [drm] Num pipes: 1
> Oct 19 22:36:03 freebsd kernel: info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
> Oct 19 22:36:03 freebsd kernel: drm0: [ITHREAD]
> Oct 19 22:36:09 freebsd kernel: info: [drm] Num pipes: 1
> 
> When I start hald (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start) it don't tell anything, even in
> verbose mode, except of:
> 
> #/usr/local/sbin/hald --verbose=yes
> 22:48:16.400 [I] hald.c:669: hal 0.5.11
> 22:48:16.400 [I] hald.c:678: Will daemonize
> 22:48:16.400 [I] hald.c:679: Becoming a daemon
> 
> But:
> 
> #ps aux | grep hal
> mutex 68396  0.0  0.1  1660  1060  p0  D+   10:48PM   0:00.00 grep hal
> 
> So I think it doesn't starts.
> 
> This is my xorg.conf (generated by `Xorg -configure):
> 
> ---------------
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
> 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option "AutoAddDevises" "off"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> 	ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> 	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
> #	Load  "dbe"
> #	Load  "dri"
> #	Load  "dri2"
> #	Load  "extmod"
> 	Load  "glx"
> #	Load  "record"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> 	Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
> 	Driver      "mouse"
> 	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
> 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> 	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
> 	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
> 	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier  "Card0"
> 	Driver      "radeon"
> 	VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
> 	BoardName   "RV515 [Radeon X1300]"
> 	BusID       "PCI:4:0:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier "Screen0"
> 	Device     "Card0"
> 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     1
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     4
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     8
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     15
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     16
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     24
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> -----------------
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated ...
>  
> 
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