On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16 +0530, "Nilesh Govindarajan" <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. That's because you haven't configured Xorg. Without HAL, you need to create entries in your Xorg.conf regarding mouse/keyboard. This is documented all over the internet, and a new config using Xorg -configure will probably also contain the appropriate lines.