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xorg-server package

mouse is not working after upgrading to hardy

Bug #183869 reported by Mathias Kende on 2008-01-17

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
	xorg-server (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello,

I upgraded to Hardy two days ago. And among many I found one serious bug that have not been reported to my knowledge : after upgrading my mouse was not working anymore. I tried with a normal PS/2 mouse and with a logitech USB mouse and neither did work.

I read that the new Xorg could find mouse on its own so I commented out all the "InputDevice" in xorg.conf and, after rebooting the X server, my mouse was working again.

here is the output of uname -a :
Linux MATHIAS-ENS 2.6.24-4-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 14 18:19:11 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

If you need more information, please let me know.

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Mathias Kende (mathias-kende) wrote on 2008-01-17:

xorg.conf Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain)

Here is my xorg.conf file

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Lambros Lambrou (lambros) wrote on 2008-01-18:

I have also run into this problem, after upgrading to Hardy from a fresh installation of Gutsy (64-bit). The mouse is completely unresponsive.

Interesting to know that getting rid of the "InputDevice" sections cures the problem - I will give that a try.

FYI, here is part of my Xorg.0.log file:

(**) Option "Protocol" "10 xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/mouse/protocol doesn't exist"
(EE) Configured Mouse: Unknown protocol "10 xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/mouse/protocol doesn't exist"
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
Atom 4, CARD32 4, unsigned long 8

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote on 2008-02-07:

This makes a lot of sense since the new Xorg release is almost all automatic and does not use static values in /etc/X11/xorg.conf . Since it is confirmed by two people and that it can have a pretty bad impact on a large portion of ubuntu users, I set the Importance to High.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2008-02-07:

Lambros: your bug is fixed and not related.