mouse dies when kdm is triggered

[Glen Barber]

On 8/2/10 4:46 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> I have an AMD-64 laptop, and have 8.1-AMD64 loaded on it.
>  From the CLI, the mouse (enabled thru rc.conf) seems to
> work fine <altho you can't actually USE the mouse on the CLI>.
> It's a touchpad mouse, Asus M70V laptop.
>
> When I trigger the GUI (with KDM), the appropriate login
> screen loads, but the mouse is dead and so is the keyboard.
>
> I have to press the power button just to get the machine to
> power down.
>
> Suggestions greatly appreciated.

Hi,

Do you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf generated?  (It does not exist by default.)

Also, have a look at the 20090123 entry of /usr/ports/UPDATING.

Regards,

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Glen Barber