Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> My new machine boots & has the basic software installed.
> Fluxbox starts & I can stop it via its menu & the keyboard.
>
> However, it doesn't recognise my Logitech optical mouse,
> which doesn't show up in the 'dmesg' list nor as  /dev/input/mouse0 .
>
> It's not a hardware problem : rebooting into System Rescue
> without touching the connections results in a working mouse
> & it is listed correctly there by 'dmesg' & as  /dev/input/mouse0 .
>
> I've checked the Kernel settings & they seem all to be where they sb,
> but the new machine is using 3.5.3 , whereas this one uses 3.4.0 .
> I used the older  .config , went thro' 'make oldconfig'
> & then thro' 'make menuconfig', so the same mouse lines should remain.
> Has anything changed in Kernel 3.5 ?
>
>  /etc/make.conf  has the line  INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" , like this machine.
> Udev doesn't seem to differ significantly.
>
> Google doesn't help, the Gentoo Wiki seems a bit out of date,
> the User's Guide doesn't add anything.  Unfortunately,
> when I started using a USB mouse back in 2007 ,
> I didn't make a note of what I did to get it working, as I usually do.
>
> Can anyone suggest what I'm missing ?

I recently had mouse/keyboard fail to work in X, despite drivers being
rebuilt, and the solution for me was to put this in my Xorg.conf file:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"
        Option "AutoEnableDevices" "true"
EndSection