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Subject: Preferred mouse/keyboard settings?
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What are the recommended settings for mouse and keyboard with the new 
xorg?

The best I've found is:

rc.conf:  moused_enable="NO"

xorg.conf:   Option "AllowEmptyInput" "On"
              keyboard and mouse InputDevice sections removed

The downsides:

xdm run from /etc/ttys doesn't see mouse or keyboard until X is killed 
and restarted.

moused="NO" makes for a 5 to 30-second pause on switching from console 
to X.  It's run by X (or hal) in the background anyway, so there's still 
a mouse pointer on the console.  I've mentioned this before:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=55740+0+archive/2008/freebsd-x11/20080727.freebsd-x11

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA