Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

[Erich Dollansky]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:03:05 -0600 (MDT)
Hi,

Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > Enable moused in rc.conf and the following from xorg.conf helped me
> > this time:
> >
> > 	Option	"AllowEmptyInput"	"false"	#

> The comment wrap there is very confusing.  But please stop using 
> AllowEmptyInput.  It was so misused that it has even been removed
> from later versions of xorg.
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html
> 
I have read this before. But what else would you do when the line above
solves the problem?

> There is an interaction with hald and moused that makes it worthwhile 
> lately for some users to run moused from rc.conf.  There may be a 

I wonder why.

> similar interaction with kbdmux(4) or some other keyboard component
> for keyboards.
> 
> hald can be improved greatly by its absence.

Isn't this the case on some Linux machines?

Erich