X take no mouse nor keyboard input

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> Matthew Seaman ??:
>> Sounds like dbus / hald breakage.  Are those two daemons running?
> No, none of them are running. I don't know I was expected to get them
> running first. When I learn FreeBSD (5 years ago) such thing was not
> mentioned in the handbook:)
>
> Should I start to read some new version of handbook on getting both running?
>>
>> What do you see in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?
> Ah, It says
>
>    AllowEmptyInput is on...
>
> I don't know why I overlooked checking Xorg.0.log
>
> So the problem is "solved" by adding this to xorg.conf
>
>    Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
>    EndSection

AllowEmptyInput is a source of problems and best avoided.

If you want to manually configure keyboard and mouse in xorg.conf 
instead of letting hal/dbus do it, use Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off". 
Or rebuild xorg-server without hal support; it's a port option.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA