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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:52:39 +0100
From:      Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X.Org/xdm 'frozen' after installworld (7-stable)
Message-ID:  <20090204105239.GA43683@core.byshenk.net>
In-Reply-To: <200902031058.42788.kstewart@owt.com>
References:  <539c60b90902030929r5d1ec7eu652ab11eb4165bb6@mail.gmail.com> <200902031058.42788.kstewart@owt.com>

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On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:58:42AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 09:29:05 am Steve Franks wrote:

> > This is a new weird one I've never had before.  Consoles work fine,
> > but the mouse and keyboard won't move/type when xdm pops up.
> > ctrl-alt-F2 takes you right to a working console, and the mouse works
> > fine in the console...ctrl-alt-backspace no longer kills X either...
 
> The option that I found the easiest was to add
> 
>      Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
> 
> To the ServerFlags section. I was told in the ports list that you can add it 
> to the ServerLayout section but I could never make that work.

I had the same problem yesterday after updating X.

For me, adding dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" to rc.conf and
restarting solved the problem.


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greg byshenk  -  gbyshenk@byshenk.net  -  Leiden, NL



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