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On 17 Mar 2013 12:07, "Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now
results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work).
>
> I found that I needed to add the following..
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option      "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
> EndSection
>
> I am pretty sure this used to be necessary, then wasn't, but now seems
required again.. From what I can see this means a 'startx' with no config
is broken which is a bit of a step backwards.
>
> BTW I have dbus & hald running.

Have you read http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html ?

Chris