On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:17:03 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> > What's in  /var/log/Xorg.0.log?  
> 
> (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
> (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
>         If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable
> AllowEmptyInput. (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers
> 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
> (WW) Disabling Keyboard1
> (WW) Disabling USB Mouse
> (II) Loader magic: 0xd20
> 

This pretty much explains it. You are trying to use the kbd and mouse
drivers, instead of letting HAL take care of it. Either add
AllowEmptyInput = "false" or remove/comment the mouse and keyboard
sections of xorg.conf. Or even move xorg.conf out of the way and let
xorg work it out for itself.


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Neil Bothwick

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