mouse dies when kdm is triggered

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Warren Block wrote:
> >
> > In today's world, using AllowEmptyInput Off is asking for input problems.
> > It's the wrong way to disable hal for input device detection. AEI also hates
> > kittens and puppies and will throw garbage on your lawn.
>
> So what's the recipe for the current RIGHT way to disable using hal and
> dbus, configuring xorg.conf appropriately?  My Thinkpad T23 running
> 7.2-STABLE and 8.0-RELEASE systems is currently broken, or I could refer
> to how I did it for them, costing quite some research pain at the time.

Add Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" to the ServerLayout or ServerFlags 
section.  That prevents xorg from adding hal-detected devices, even if 
hal is running.

The other option is to build xorg-server without hal support:
   # cd /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server; make config

Turn off the HAL option and rebuild/reinstall the port.  If you do that, 
a reminder comment about it in xorg.conf could be a good idea.  Or just 
include the AutoAddDevices option anyway; I doubt xorg-server without 
hal support would complain about it, but can't recall testing that.