No kbd and no mouse on iBook G4 with Xorg?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Mar 22, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
>> Did someone manage to get X working on an iBook G4, running
>> FreeBSD -current (rev r190283) and with Xorg 1.5.3?
>>
>> The keyboard (akbd) and mouse (ums0/ums1/sysmouse) don't seem
>> to work for me.
>>
>> I have kernel config, dmesg, xorg.conf, etc here:
>> 	http://ns1.xcllnt.net/~marcel/machines/ibook/
>>
>
> The keyboard should work fine -- maybe you've been bitten by the  
> stupid mouse blocking thing in Xorg 7.4? I put my working xorg.conf  
> for almost
> the same machine at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/xorg.ibook.conf

The problem was a missing:
	Option	 "AllowEmptyInput" "off"

Without it both kbd and mouse were disabled.

> The mouse is another issue. Apple's two-finger scrolling trackpads  
> claim to be
> standard USB mice, but are not. Instead, they just transfer the  
> pressure
> everywhere on their sensor grids continuously, and require a new  
> driver. This is pbms(4) on NetBSD.

Hmmm... Ah well... An external mouse it is for now...

Thanks,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com