Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Daniel P. Wright wrote:

> I am having issues with my keyboard running FreeBSD 9-RELEASE.  It is
> recognised fine by the system and works within the console (outside of X),
> but within a couple of minutes of X launching it stops working in X.  I can
> still use ctrl-alt-F1 (or whatever) to break back out to the console, and
> from there can kill X and relaunch.  It cuts out within a minute or so
> every time though, so the computer is pretty much unusable under X.
>
> I've seen similar problems on the FreeBSD forums, and tried to follow the
> advice there, namely:
>
> 1) Ensuring the half and dubs daemons are running

hald and dbus...

> 2) Setting [Option  "AutoAddDevices"  "Off"] in xorg.conf

This tells X not to use hald.  If you window manager/desktop environment 
does not require hald, not running hald at all might fix the problem. 
dbus can be kept.  AFAIK, xfce is the only desktop environment that 
doesn't need hald, but all the simpler window managers should be fine.