After installing Mate desktop environment on a fresh FreeBSD 10.2 box, mouse was not working. This is what I have in my /etc/rc.conf:
Some suggests that the order of hald and dbus be swapped around. I tried that, and it didn’t work.
A bit of more Googlings, I found out a working solution[1]. I need to install: xf86-input-mouse
.
Here’s how I did it:
And that’s all required to be done. If your keyboard is not working in Xorg, you might want to also install xf86-input-keyboard
.
Full credit goes to the guy at the killtheradio.ne. Thanks!
Ref:
– [1] http://killtheradio.net/tricks-hacks/keyboardmouse-not-working-in-xorg-on-freebsd/