From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 6 23:34:34 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 188AE9A079A for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2015 23:34:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from welcome.to.eye.o.rama@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yk0-x232.google.com (mail-yk0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c07::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D1A861D78 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2015 23:34:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from welcome.to.eye.o.rama@gmail.com) Received: by ykdr82 with SMTP id r82so176945211ykd.3 for ; Sun, 06 Dec 2015 15:34:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=upNiNmLAbWjXBuoOXkUWeD11CFHoBhoTeB/bB+hPrcE=; b=oJoSz7hiLu5zo7HRVU+0pjokxX353cxke2EmvnzkuoNHnH8ilp7+aU3/FxyYvAWzrN YsuJORmznC9LuNGK7iSJr0v2qTTxdfkw3HlfdtbPAvCCFfDINoPmnhnmFp09z/+p52Fb YVa4TZ4LxuDGRAWyfE5DgfLbBdrjZV0WRdsV4mLtokJnEnCJ6QXB4HW6PNo2fZknwJwk Krfp1DylCQQE2xL+tRorR9IcuXnpce4LgeBtsfKBPf8Y4nJbs12qNVpSOZP1+FPogw0E tU8iMEma23DQYCqj6JSzPgLw/Y+eXLL64DUeTOpx/GzHp4CcBciRjSR3Cj886iMUJQdX CmFw== X-Received: by 10.13.218.68 with SMTP id c65mr20708781ywe.315.1449444873062; Sun, 06 Dec 2015 15:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2602:30a:2c86:1740:3615:9eff:fe1f:8316? ([2602:30a:2c86:1740:3615:9eff:fe1f:8316]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q141sm16997550ywg.22.2015.12.06.15.34.31 (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 06 Dec 2015 15:34:32 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working in Virtual Box VM Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: John Aten In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 17:34:29 -0600 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <26A369F7-EB9E-4BC1-A002-990820F90DB1@gmail.com> References: <010EFC12-FD25-4A04-B042-9B0C95478C03@gmail.com> To: Warren Block X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:34:34 -0000 On Dec 5, 2015, at 11:18 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2015, John Aten wrote: >=20 >> After installing Enlightenment, I ran X -configure, >=20 > Why? The very first thing to try is letting X detect hardware and = autoconfig. That means running it without any xorg.conf at all I didn't know that. I was having the problem before I ran X -configure, = and when I was researching it I thought that this was a step I missed. = The keyboard and mouse do not work, though, whether with no xorg.conf, = with the one I previously posted, or with an xorg.conf containing only = the suggested lines: >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Mouse0" >> Driver "vboxmouse" >> EndSection >>=20 >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card0" >> Driver "vboxvideo" >> EndSection The VM won't boot at all now. I am not sure what happened, but I think = it must have something to do that I synced the wrong version of the = source. I am going to download another vm image and start over. Maybe = that will fix the problem. Thanks for the information. John