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On 05/31/2014 04:01 PM, David Wolfskill wrote:
> Do you have either hald or dbus running?
> 
> IIRC, the default X.org config requires at least one of them.
> 
> I had bad experiences with hald (in particular) some years ago, and
> changed my xorg.conf to avoid using them.
> 
> You *might* want to try augmenting xorg.conf with:
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option         "AutoAddDevices" "False"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> and disable hald & dbus, then see what happens when you restart X. :-}
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Peace,
> david
> 
Thanks, David.  I agree; I've generally had more problems with X, hal,
pam, consolekit and polkit than everything else combined.  I did try
your suggestions, in full and individually.

Adding that ServerFlags section to xorg.conf made no apparent
difference; without both hald and dbus running I can start X but no
mouse and effectively no keyboard (I can ctrl-alt-del to reboot, but
everything else is dead.)

Thanks for your suggestions.  Hopefully someone, somewhere has had a
similar problem.