[gentoo-user] USB mouse and keyboard stopped working

[gentoo-user] USB mouse and keyboard stopped working

[Allan Gottlieb]

The external (USB) mouse on one of my laptops stopped working.
I tried a keyboard and that failed as well.

There are two USB ports and the mouse fails on both (only tried the
keyboard on one).

I can dual boot into windows and there the mouse does work on both
ports.

The kernel is unchanged (3.5.4).  This seems to have happened around the
last udev update (now 197-r2), which caused other problems (these have
been repaired using suggestions from this group).

I would appreciate any help.

allan

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse and keyboard stopped working

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> The external (USB) mouse on one of my laptops stopped working.
> I tried a keyboard and that failed as well.
>
> There are two USB ports and the mouse fails on both (only tried the
> keyboard on one).
>
> I can dual boot into windows and there the mouse does work on both
> ports.
>
> The kernel is unchanged (3.5.4).  This seems to have happened around the
> last udev update (now 197-r2), which caused other problems (these have
> been repaired using suggestions from this group).
>
> I would appreciate any help.

The usual info is necessary: do you mean they stopped working on X? Do
you use a xorg.conf? Do you use xf86-input-evdev?

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse and keyboard stopped working--WORKS!

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Tue, Jan 15 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> The external (USB) mouse on one of my laptops stopped working.
>> I tried a keyboard and that failed as well.
>>
>> There are two USB ports and the mouse fails on both (only tried the
>> keyboard on one).
>>
>> I can dual boot into windows and there the mouse does work on both
>> ports.
>>
>> The kernel is unchanged (3.5.4).  This seems to have happened around the
>> last udev update (now 197-r2), which caused other problems (these have
>> been repaired using suggestions from this group).
>>
>> I would appreciate any help.
>
> The usual info is necessary: do you mean they stopped working on X? Do
> you use a xorg.conf? Do you use xf86-input-evdev?
>
> Regards.

Yes, under X.

No xorg.conf.  I just have /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf (see
below).

Yes, xf86-input-evdev is installed.

thanks,
allan

... I just went to re-confirm that tail -f /var/log/messages shows
nothing when the mouse is inserted/removed (I did that test yesterday)
and all-of-a-sudden IT WORKS!  The mouse is fine.  I looked at what was
emerged today (~amd64) and don't see anything relevant.  Thanks for your
interest.


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I believe this is the default, but here is 10-evdev.conf

#
# Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
        MatchIsTablet "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection