Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel P. Wright
Hello, I am having issues with my keyboard running FreeBSD 9-RELEASE. It is recognised fine by the system and works within the console (outside of X), but within a couple of minutes of X launching it stops working in X. I can still use ctrl-alt-F1 (or whatever) to break back out to the console,

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

2012-07-26 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Daniel P. Wright wrote: I am having issues with my keyboard running FreeBSD 9-RELEASE. It is recognised fine by the system and works within the console (outside of X), but within a couple of minutes of X launching it stops working in X. I can still use ctrl-alt-F1 (or

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

2012-07-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:17:27 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Daniel P. Wright wrote: I am having issues with my keyboard running FreeBSD 9-RELEASE. It is recognised fine by the system and works within the console (outside of X), but within a

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

2012-07-26 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: I ran FreeBSD since 8 on this machine but I have had to start finding a new setting for xorg.conf to make X working again after a recent upgrade. Enable moused in rc.conf and the following from xorg.conf helped me this time: # # 24.07.12 ed: we

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

2012-07-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:03:05 -0600 (MDT) Hi, Warren Block wbl...@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

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

2012-07-26 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:03:05 -0600 (MDT) Hi, Warren Block wbl...@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

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel P. Wright
Hello, Thank you all for your replies. I have finally managed to get the machine up and running again -- the problem was not what I expected! Following advice in this thread and around the internet, I tried: 1) Setting AutoAddDevices, etc in xorg.conf 2) Disabling HAL before starting X 3)

Re: Keyboard cutting off soon after launching X

2012-07-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:21:19 +0900 Daniel P. Wright d...@dpwright.com wrote: Thank you all for your replies. I have finally managed to get the machine up and running again -- the problem was not what I expected! like always. 1) Setting AutoAddDevices, etc in xorg.conf 2) Disabling