USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

Steven Friedrich freebsd at insightbb.com
Sat Jan 9 00:35:03 UTC 2010


On Friday 08 January 2010 07:25:04 pm Frank wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > Check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >
> > Make sure Option "AllowEmptyInput" is not on, 1, true, etc.  We needed
> > this option as a temporary work-around when a bug existed during the code
> > freeze during the FreeBSD8.0 release process. So if you install FreeBSD
> > 8.0-RELEASE from any media, to get Xorg to "see" your mouse, you'll have
> > to add this option to the ServerOptions section of xorg.conf.
> > If you then update your ports, you'll get a newer Xorg than was frozen
> > for the 8.0 RELEASE, and you'll have to remove the option.
> 
> This is what I have in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>          Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>          Screen         "Screen0"
>          InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>          InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>          Option      "AutoAddDevices" "on"
>          Option      "AutoEnableDevices" "on"
>          Option      "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> EndSection
> 
> --
> Frank
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Comment out the line containing AllowEmptyInput.


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