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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:30:27 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        Andrey Zhidenkov <andrey.zhidenkov@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mouse and keyboard don't work in Xorg 7.4
Message-ID:  <4ADCBE53.5020404@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20091019185224.GA10790@desktop>
References:  <20091019185224.GA10790@desktop>

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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.
>   

It will probably work fine if you add the following two lines into
/etc/rc.conf and reboot:

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

Have  a look at the updated Handbook section that describes this
procedure in more detail:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html



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