From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 21:00:47 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 EAB471065678 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:00:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rcfarnes@broadpark.no) Received: from thalia-smout.broadpark.no (thalia-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F078FC0A for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:00:47 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from terra-smin.broadpark.no ([unknown] [80.202.8.13]) by thalia-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-12.01 64bit (built Oct 15 2009)) with ESMTP id <0L4H005LEJPA4SC0@thalia-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:00:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from unknown-00-11-09-ab-bf-c1.lan ([unknown] [80.202.87.101]) by terra-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-12.01 64bit (built Oct 15 2009)) with ESMTP id <0L4H00G2RJP9O1Q0@terra-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:00:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Richard T C Farnes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:00:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <6BBBA4BE-53BE-486E-B26C-0630A285763E@balholm.com> In-reply-to: <6BBBA4BE-53BE-486E-B26C-0630A285763E@balholm.com> Message-id: <201006232300.44554.rcfarnes@broadpark.no> 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: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:00:48 -0000 On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:52:54 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. > > Andy Balholm > (509) 276-2065 > andy@balholm.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Here it looks like you have made some mistakes in the configuring file for X. You did not mention that you have configured it. After X has been installed you must go into the X configuration file and configure your keyboard and mouse etc for use with it. When I installed X on my version 7 BSD I had to use some time tuning this file so X would work properly. The file gives you alternatives like which language keyboard you use and how your mouse works and other settings. Regards Richard Farnes