From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 19:40:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E44106567A for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:40:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208EC8FC12 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws14 with SMTP id 14so377855vws.13 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:40:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=V4xt3PtQTadI5LWRQA97EKp4agXgI1Qr/z2BEuLPfoI=; b=oElRBxyAp19CbInFLNtV9parYG1r2VxrNNiRDN1YobZ0XZUxX30jwLAxUhFp92F7Ub OT71FTEv2sH4z7OCAoH+csHHMSC2MFZblQy/X0qhZHOMqORLShg4Bca6mTs10BP9PjG1 7l1JBXXC5BHxeEUUgE5yC6jxbeKab4e7290v8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=x3w/3XOuWwzwlER/fLnqiVKaNZcok4Evv6TtXP4rGADB+cvKHkh5NKcyOUYfw44WQI LqqylqSFkUcNA5ljU/YHZGBy/G4h/0wNT1x+QXqNK32gL9BmtByFME+jkUhh3U0QCCY9 fY+Eib1wfZNUWcNjZEAa21p075Ct1LvVk4T8U= Received: by 10.220.124.196 with SMTP id v4mr3454642vcr.175.1277233512711; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (173-161-130-225-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.161.130.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w28sm16223130vcr.35.2010.06.22.12.05.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C210965.9040909@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:05:09 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Balholm References: <6BBBA4BE-53BE-486E-B26C-0630A285763E@balholm.com> In-Reply-To: <6BBBA4BE-53BE-486E-B26C-0630A285763E@balholm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X not responding X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:40:49 -0000 On 6/22/10 1:52 PM, Andy Balholm wrote: > I am having a problem with Xorg under FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE and 8.1 RC1: > > When I type startx, the X server starts, and some xterm windows open, but it will not respond to keyboard or mouse input. The mouse pointer won't move, and the only keyboard input that does anything is CTRL-ALT-F1 etc. to switch virtual terminals. > > If I install FreeBSD 7.1, which installs Xorg straight from the installation CD, it works fine. Under version 8, I've tried installing from ports and packages, and I get this problem. > > When I first had this problem, I was running it under VirtualBox, so I thought maybe it was because VirtualBox's FreeBSD support is incomplete. But now I've tried it on real PC hardware, and I have the same problem. > > Obviously some people must be running X under FreeBSD 8, so I must be doing something wrong in my installation or configuration, but I can't guess what it is. > Try adding the following to xorg.conf: Section "ServerFlags" option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" option "AutoAddDevices" "off" EndSection Regards, -- Glen Barber