On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:24:54 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ? > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Configuring
