[SOLVED]Mouse and keyboard acting crazy. I have to restart gdm via ssh

Here's the output from dmesg after boot.
http://pastebay.com/14045
Basically, I'm getting errors from my USB mouse and keyboard. If I wait long enough udev will find them and they'll start working. GDM starts too fast so Xorg is stuck without keyboard and mouse. I had to ssh and restart GDM then mouse and keyboard worked. For the meantime I've disabled gdm in rc.conf.
I usually see these messages from devices that are drawing too much power from the USB power bus.
These devices work fine in the Win32 and OSX installs on the same hardware.
thanks ya'll
[EDIT]
daemons from rc.conf
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond @sshd dbus hal fam @alsa @cups @portmap @avahi-daemon @ntpd @ntpdate !gdm)
Last edited by bloodniece (2009-05-21 15:32:59)

Well, my media card reader, an internally mounted one, decided to act crazy. Unplugging it from the mobo seemed to fix it. wonder what happened, it's only 3 months old and has no moving parts

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It appears that the mouse and keyboard aren't working correctly. I will try to assist you with this.
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Currently install operating system.
Were these working previously? If yes, were any changes made prior to them not working?
Have you attempted any troubleshooting? If yes, what have you tried so far?
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