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

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

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