From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 21:25:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4341065673 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:25:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130B08FC1F for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:25:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 53B76E81C0C; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:25:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Boris Kochergin Message-ID: <20101013212514.GA19644@thought.org> References: <20101012181748.GA4173@thought.org> <4FFC682B-4261-4CD8-A533-36559605BE11@lassitu.de> <20101012234816.GE4957@thought.org> <4CB5AA88.1050505@acm.poly.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CB5AA88.1050505@acm.poly.edu> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List , Stefan Bethke Subject: Re: need help with BElkin KVM and USB mouse problems. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:25:13 -0000 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 08:48:08AM -0400, Boris Kochergin wrote: > I have a USB KVM whose mouse and keyboard work both on the console > and in X. My xorg.conf is attached. I am running moused. I am *not* > running hald. > > -Boris > Appreciate your xorg posting, thanks.. What did the trick was to turn off half in /etc/rc.conf and add the following to the Server Layout block: Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" I just checked: the mouse daemon is not running; the pointer works in both console and X modes. Why? no clue. The help was from Warren Block's site. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html cheers, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org