Re: FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 USB Mouse and Keyboard

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>
>  I have installed FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 .
>>
>> During installation and boots , and ( as root ) console mode , both USB
>> keyboard and mouse are working .
>>
>> When a graphical desktop ( Fluxbox , Gnome , or KDE ) is started , both of
>> them are becoming frozen .
>> Detach and attach of mouse are detected , but input is not possible .
>> PS/2 mouse is also not working .
>> I did not check PS/2 keyboard .
>> Only Ctrl-Alt-F1 is discontinuing graphical display , and Ctrl-C is
>> returning to root prompt .
>>
>> KDE is staying as it is after displaying of hard disk symbol and then it
>> is
>> waiting there .
>> Gnome is displaying all the parts , but no input possibility .
>> Fluxbox is displaying its window , but no input possibility .
>>
>> It seems that X is NOT able to register dbus related parts ( understood
>> from
>> messages left on the screen after discontinuation ) .
>>
>> On the same computer , I have installed Fedora 15 and everything is
>> working
>> as expected , means there is no any hardware problem .
>>
>
> The same symptoms happen if X is configured to use hald for input device
> detection but hald is not running.  The easy way to test that is to put
> Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
> in the ServerLayout section.
>


Also by Benjamin Kaduk :


Has this computer successfully run other versions of FreeBSD with X?
I seem to recall there can be odd interactions with hald, xorg.conf, and
others. Some googling brings up
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html which seems to cover many
of the relevant issues.

-Ben Kaduk


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After the above messages ,
on the same computer , I have installed the FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 amd64 again .

I have generated an xorg.conf file .

Into the xorg.conf  file and ServerLayout part , I have inserted

 Option "AutoAddDevices"  "Off"

The USB Mouse and Keyboard , Fluxbox  started to work as expected in the
graphical mode  under X .


Without the above statement about Option , the error message is :

(EE) config/hal : couldn't initialise context . unknown error (null)


In FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 i386 , such a step is NOT necessary .


Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk