I just installed a new kernel and "upgraded" to udev following the gentoo handbook. The reboot was fine but X did not start, complaining about missing core pointer. I found that there's no /dev/mouse, so I can't refer to it in xorg.conf. I changed the device to /dev/psaux and it seems to work fine. Still, it seems this is a snafu that shouldn't be... might just be for documentation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bidi bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cscope cups dga div4linux dvd encode esd exif f77 fam fftw flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif ginac gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod ming motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python quicktime radeon readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode usb wmf xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zeo zlib"
udev creates a /dev/input/mice please change it in xorg.conf and close this bug, btw your problem would have been solved earlier if you used forums.gentoo.org
/dev/input/mice works fine.
