On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:57 AM, jwbirdsong <jwbirdsong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/16/2010 10:54 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan 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 ? > > in addition to what Ty posted there is also > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Get_All_Mouse_Buttons_Working that has > some pointers > I don't have seven mouse buttons. The mouse and keyboard is already configured in xorg.conf using drivers mouse and kbd. If I stop hal, and then start Xorg, it doesn't work. I've to hard reset my box. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com
