Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:45:52 -0400 From: James Ballantine <jwb@hera.homer.att.com> To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse stopped working in X Message-ID: <874F0B67-8926-4095-BC49-E3C4D87F5543@hera.homer.att.com> In-Reply-To: <4FB64022.6010206@bananmonarki.se> References: <201205181149.q4IBndvU028665@hera.homer.att.com> <4FB64022.6010206@bananmonarki.se>
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I'm running Gnome2 on a 9-stable system. On May 18, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-05-18 13:49, J. W. Ballantine skrev: >> Hi, >> >> Before the update of x11 on 4/21/2012, X was working fine, but now >> when I startx, my usb and touchpad mouse are no longer found. The >> mouse works in terminal mode, and hald and dbus are started in >> /etc/rc.conf. > > I have exactly the same problem. What windowmanager are you > using? I'm using xfce4, I have a workaround for that. > > 1. start X > 2. when it comes up press alt+F2, the start program dialog comes up > 3. type in xterm or your terminal of choice > 4. in your terminal su to root then type > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus restart && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald restart > > wait a few seconds and the mouse should work again.
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