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After the latest upgrade this morning, I lost my mouse. It shows up in the middle of the screen, but no movement. I've checked in multiple desktops/wms including xfce4 and fluxbox. has Arch changed the device name? I have a standard 3-button MS USB mouse, /dev/input/mice in xorg.conf. hwd shows:
Generic PS/2 Wheel mouse xtype: PS2 device: /dev/psaux
but it's always been /dev/input/mice in xorg.conf. I tried changing it to /dev/psaux with no success, but I notice there's also a /dev/input/mouse0, so I'll try changing it to that to see if that works after I post this.
The only other thing I noticed is that module i2c_isa no longer loads. Not sure if the mouse is related to that or not, or if i2c_isa has been replaced with i2c_core or what. xf86-input-mouse is up to date. USB works with my camera and palm, so I don't think it's USB. Any help appreciated, KB only is getting old fast!
>> well, it's not the hardware. i was afraid my motherboard might have yakked on me, but i booted into slax and both the USB and a PS2 mouse worked fine. I rebuilt the kernel image in case it missed a module, checked the bios - everything's the same there (worked in slax anyway, so that's obviously not it), and tried /dev/input/mouse0.
here's lsmod:
Module Size Used by
radeon 122400 2
ipv6 250468 10
cpufreq_ondemand 7180 1
ohci_hcd 20100 0
snd_via82xx 23192 0
snd_mpu401_uart 7168 1 snd_via82xx
ehci_hcd 32012 0
rtc_cmos 7584 0
rtc_core 14984 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 3072 1 rtc_core
k8temp 4864 0
shpchp 29332 0
pci_hotplug 26784 1 shpchp
uhci_hcd 22416 0
amd64_agp 9860 1
i2c_viapro 8084 0
evdev 8192 4
thermal 12956 0
fan 4100 0
button 6544 0
ac 4356 0
powernow_k8 14100 0
freq_table 4112 2 cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8
processor 27992 2 thermal,powernow_k8
visor 17932 0
usbserial 30312 1 visor
drm 71572 3 radeon
nvidia_agp 6940 0
agpgart 27096 3 amd64_agp,drm,nvidia_agp
via_rhine 20744 0
mii 4992 1 via_rhine
snd_seq_oss 29312 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6528 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 46800 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 36896 0
snd_mixer_oss 14464 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_cs46xx 78408 3
gameport 11784 3 snd_via82xx,snd_cs46xx
snd_rawmidi 19232 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_cs46xx
snd_seq_device 6924 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 95268 2 snd_via82xx,snd_cs46xx
ac97_bus 2432 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 68996 4 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss,snd_cs46xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19332 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 44644 16 snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_cs46xx,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 6496 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 8072 3 snd_via82xx,snd_cs46xx,snd_pcm
w83781d 25644 0
hwmon_vid 3328 1 w83781d
i2c_core 20096 2 i2c_viapro,w83781d
usbcore 123016 6 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,visor,usbserial
ext3 119560 8
jbd 54440 1 ext3
mbcache 7040 1 ext3
ide_cd 35360 0
cdrom 33952 1 ide_cd
ide_floppy 15872 0
via82cxxx 8324 0 [permanent]
generic 4740 0 [permanent]
ide_disk 14208 11
ide_core 111172 5 ide_cd,ide_floppy,via82cxxx,generic,ide_disk
the ease of arch has spoiled me. I can't think of what else to check ATM. :confused:
Okay - I got my old PS/2 mouse working at least - just forgot to load the psmouse module for that one. Still no USB mouse though - any ideas? thankx.
Last edited by slackhack (2007-10-27 17:43:51)

the configuration sarah31 send you should work without problems:
here is a little autodetect.....:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
#Option "Buttons" "3"
#Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
this will autoprobe your mouse protocol (indeed it's IMPS/2 for all PS/2 mouses afaik, but it's worth a try), i've commented out the buttons lines, maybe they don't like your mouse....
then u should check wheather your /dev/psaux device exists.
also check if in your "ServerLayout" Section in your XF86Config this line exists:
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

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