On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Ty John <ty-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:08:22 +0530 > Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > USB mice have worked without hal for a long time. It's just >> > hotplugging that won't work. >> > >> >> Well, I recently copied /etc/group.pacnew to /etc/group which didn't >> have the hal and gdm groups. >> HAL didn't start, and when I started KDE (xinit startkde) or GDM or >> KDM, neither keyboard nor mouse worked. After adding hal group, it >> worked fine, since HAL started succesfully. >> > > > But did you put it in your xorg.conf file? > What to put ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com