On Thursday 23 April 2009 19:29:30 David C. Rankin wrote: Hello David,
> I thought I was ready to rock and > roll, but when I grabbed the mouse - it didn't move?? Then I tried typing > my pw, and no characters (or dots) appeared? The I tried ctrl+alt+backspace > to kill X -- no joy. Then ctrl+alt+F1, still no joy. > > OK, ssh into box and kill kdm, back to normal login. Now I'm scratching > my > head on what to check to get my mouse and keyboard back? Any ideas? > > >From Xorg.0.log, this is obviously the problem: > > (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" > (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or > 'vmmouse' will be disabled. > (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 > (WW) Disabling Mouse0 > > Huh? They must have been there a minute ago what gives? > > I wonder how they got started last time? Make sure to start D-Bus and HAL before you start KDM. In rc.conf: DAEMONS=( ... dbus hal kdm ... ) Kind regards, -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855)
