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[hardy] evdev mouse driver stops working

Bug #173428 reported by Kai Schroeder on 2007-12-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #173833: evdev mouse fails on hardy: cannot open input pEvdev. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

My Logitech mouse stopped working after the upgrade to hardy. X still starts up but I cannot move the mouse pointer.

the relevant portion of my xorg.conf looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Name" "Logitech USB RECEIVER"
EndSection

Xorg0.log error message:

(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured Mouse: always reports core events
(EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input pEvdev
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "Configured Mouse"

at the moment I use the ExplorerPS/2 protocol which works good enough.

See original description

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Kai Schroeder (kai-schroeder) wrote on 2007-12-02:

I could fix the problem by entering:
sudo cp /usr/share/doc/hal/examples/10-x11-input.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/

and restarting hal and X.

taken from here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443292

Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) on 2007-12-06

description:	updated
Changed in xorg:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Confirmed

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MyName (rk.) wrote on 2008-02-02:

The workaround doesn't help. Still not working

xserver-xorg-input-evdev version: 1:1.2.0-1

Xorg.log

(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured lx7 Mouse: always reports core events
(EE) Configured lx7 Mouse: cannot open input pEvdev
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "Configured lx7 Mouse"

xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
        Option "CorePointer"
        Identifier "Configured lx7 Mouse"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "Name" "Logitech USB RECEIVER"
        Option "Protocol" "evdev"
        Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
        Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
        Option "Buttons" "9"
        Option "ButtonNumber" "9"
EndSection

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MyName (rk.) wrote on 2008-02-02:

This workorund solve my problem.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443292#75

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Ari (ari-reads) wrote on 2008-03-21:

Same problem here with Hardy Beta cleaninstall

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Mark (stinkriver) wrote on 2008-03-27:

I can confirm this bug in my Hardy Beta setup.

My old Xorg mouse configuration that worked fine in Gutsy is now broken in Hardy. My symptoms and Xorg log is similar to that of the initial post.

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paul fox (pgf-launchpad) wrote on 2008-04-07:

this is a result of the xorg folks changing the configuration parameters for evdev.

the new config doesn't want Name or Phys config lines. it wants a "Device" line,
like so:
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/<name-of-your-keyboard-or-mouse-here>"

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kozimodo (forums-theo) wrote on 2008-04-10:

Tried this but it still fails. One oddity is that in the /dev/input/by-id directory are two devices:
    /dev/input/by-id/usb-062a_0000-event-mouse
    /dev/input/by-id/usb-062a_0000-mouse
but my LX7 is plugged in through the PS/2 mouse port. Also looking weird is the output from 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices':
    I: Bus=0003 Vendor=062a Product=0000 Version=0110
    N: Name="HID 062a:0000"
    P: Phys=usb-0000:00:13.0-3/input0
    S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb1/1-3/1-3:0.0/input/input2
    U: Uniq=
    H: Handlers=mouse1 event2
    B: EV=17
    B: KEY=1f0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    B: REL=103
   B: MSC=10