Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:40:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206051734550.7974@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <jqm3sr$1l5$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <jqm3sr$1l5$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: > Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to > FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD > is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to > work. > > I have scoured the handbook, and Googled, but to no avail. > > This is 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 - fully updated. > > I don't need the mouse in consoles, but I do want it in X. > > Here is my xorg.conf in its entirety: There are duplicated sections in the output provided. > ################################## > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "XFree86 Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > Option "Clone" "off" > EndSection > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AutoAddDevices" "On" > EndSection Setting AutoAddDevices on means to use HAL for mouse detection. Is HAL running? On one notebook, I had to set moused_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf before both the touchpad and an external mouse would work.
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