startx fails (see Xorg.0.log), evdev lacking core pointer capabilities. startx works without evdev. startx works at least with vanilla-sources-2.6.14.2 and <mm-sources-2.6.14_rc4-r1 with evdev Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.use gentoo-sources-2.6.14-* with evdev 2.use xorg-7 with evdev 3. Actual Results: startx fails, "(WW) Mouse1: does not have core pointer capabilities" Expected Results: start X (obviously) Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6-r1, 2.6.14.2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14.2 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/local/tmp/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/omat" SYNC="rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts boundschecking browserplugin bzip2 bzlib c++ cdda cdr cdrom codecs corba crypt curl dbcp dhcp directfb divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdread eds encode escreen exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran freetype gd gif gimp glibc glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 iconv idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg kdeenablefinal latex lcd lcms lm_sensors lua matroska mikmod mime mmx mng mod motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer multitarget ncurses nls no-old-linux no-opts no-suexec nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc octave ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png print python qt quicktime readline real samba screen sdl sensord shout snmp speex sse ssl svg svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode urandom userlocales utf8 v4l vcd vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 74087 [details] appropriate xorg log This is the log I get
Created attachment 74089 [details] xorg.conf this is my xorg.conf (with evdev mouse)
The (WW) message you posted is not an error, only a warning. Not sure if it matters or not. Please attach an xorg log from a vanilla-sources kernel where xorg works. Please also attach full dmesg output from a working vanilla-sources and a broken gentoo-sources , and /proc/bus/input/devices from both kernels.
Created attachment 74304 [details] the xorg log of functional vanilla 2.6.14.3 "xorg log from a vanilla-sources kernel where xorg works."
Created attachment 74305 [details] /proc/bus/input/devices of functional vanilla-2.6.14.3 /proc/bus/input/devices from a vanilla-sources kernel where xorg works,
Created attachment 74310 [details] /proc/bus/input/devices of 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 /proc/bus/input/devices from a gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r4 kernel where xorg doesn't work
Created attachment 74311 [details] dmesg from the functional vanilla-2.6.14.3
Created attachment 74317 [details] dmesg from the 2.6.14-gentoo-r4
One of Gentoo's patches (speakup) alters the driver loading order which means keyboard gets loaded before mouse. You can use /dev/input/event1 on gentoo-sources which is equivalent to what you know normally as event0 (they have swapped). Unfortunately this won't change in vanilla-sources until the patch gets merged there. Googling suggests that instead of specifying the device name, you can do something like: Option "Dev Phys" "usb-*/input0" which would specify the first usb input device. Maybe even better, you could instead do: Option "Dev Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
*** Bug 122229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
