OK, lets KISS. You are all over the place with this, so simplify things and address one issue at a time. I'll try and wade through the mass of information, so please correct me if I have missed something. It sounds like you have at least four different problems here:
1) Nvidia driver not working correctly (just got done fixing this myself)
2) Mouse not working
3) X not installing
4) TTF fonts not working
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I am now aware that I need an extra su - to make install under X.
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So does this mean that you do or do not have X installed correctly? If you do NOT have X installed correctly, you need to start here. Make sure you follow the BLFS instructions EXACTLY.
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Xorg complains that it was unable to detect the mouse. I tried amending xorg.conf to set the input device to /dev/input/mice or to /dev/input/psaux or to /dev/input/mouse0 but every time I redid Xorg -configure the xorg.conf file changes back to normal.
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So is your mouse working or not? If it is not, what kind of mouse is it? That usually determines where the mouse input should be coming from. A good idea would be to look at the xorg.conf file on the host system that you used to build your LFS install and use that as a guide to editing your xorg.conf file on the BLFS system.
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I then tried to build the TTF fonts like it says in the X Window Configuration chapter. To no avail.
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What does this mean? What happened when you installed X? Have you installed Freetype1/2? Did they install correctly? Do you actually have TTF fonts installed? How do you know TTF fonts aren't working?
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(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module
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Look in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. That will give you more details as to exactly what is going on with this. However, this is the *last* of your worries right now.
IMHO, you need to address the issues in the following order:
1) Get X installed.
2) Get your mouse working.
3) Get TTF fonts working
4) Get the Nvidia driver working.