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Date:      Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:10:01 +0700
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        "Daniel P. Wright" <dani@dpwright.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X
Message-ID:  <20120727011001.68e15c51@AMD620.ovitrap.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207261057300.11518@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:03:05 -0600 (MDT)
Hi,

Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > Enable moused in rc.conf and the following from xorg.conf helped me
> > this time:
> >
> > 	Option	"AllowEmptyInput"	"false"	#

> The comment wrap there is very confusing.  But please stop using 
> AllowEmptyInput.  It was so misused that it has even been removed
> from later versions of xorg.
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html
> 
I have read this before. But what else would you do when the line above
solves the problem?

> There is an interaction with hald and moused that makes it worthwhile 
> lately for some users to run moused from rc.conf.  There may be a 

I wonder why.

> similar interaction with kbdmux(4) or some other keyboard component
> for keyboards.
> 
> hald can be improved greatly by its absence.

Isn't this the case on some Linux machines?

Erich



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