FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 USB Mouse and Keyboard

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:

> I have installed FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 .
>
> During installation and boots , and ( as root ) console mode , both USB
> keyboard and mouse are working .
>
> When a graphical desktop ( Fluxbox , Gnome , or KDE ) is started , both of
> them are becoming frozen .
> Detach and attach of mouse are detected , but input is not possible .
> PS/2 mouse is also not working .
> I did not check PS/2 keyboard .
> Only Ctrl-Alt-F1 is discontinuing graphical display , and Ctrl-C is
> returning to root prompt .
>
> KDE is staying as it is after displaying of hard disk symbol and then it is
> waiting there .
> Gnome is displaying all the parts , but no input possibility .
> Fluxbox is displaying its window , but no input possibility .
>
> It seems that X is NOT able to register dbus related parts ( understood from
> messages left on the screen after discontinuation ) .
>
> On the same computer , I have installed Fedora 15 and everything is working
> as expected , means there is no any hardware problem .

Has this computer successfully run other versions of FreeBSD with X?
I seem to recall there can be odd interactions with hald, xorg.conf, and 
others.  Some googling brings up 
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html which seems to cover 
many of the relevant issues.

-Ben Kaduk