Using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4 my mouse pointer is frozen in Xorg. I have gpm in the console, that works fine. No errors on this in dmesg and none in Xorg.0.log as far as I can tell. The solution was to use gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11 instead, I haven't tried any other gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-rX Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4 2. 3.
Pardon, I neglected to include some data that might be useful. The mouse is a usb device, here's the relevant xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Resolution" "1600" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Simple Layout" Screen "Screen 1" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 13:02:01)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/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 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/overlay" SYNC="rsync://kramer/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww live mad matroska mikmod mmx mmx2 mp3 mpeg mysql nas ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nvidia oci8 oggvorbis opengl oracle oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba sasl sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode x86 xine xml2 xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL
Are you shure your mouse supports 1600 of resolution?
Hm, I just set it to match my screen resolution, as per some document I read at the time. I've had that setting for a while, never had a problem with it before..
Resolution is not the desktop resolution, it's the mouse dpi's. try to comment that line and see if it works.
No, I'm afraid that doesn't help, mouse is still dead.
What kind of mouse is it? Try all of these also in your Option "Device" /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse /dev/usbmouse /dev/usb/mouse and /dev/psaux If you have an Intellimouse
Just found this from someone who is having the same problem. Go check your kernel and make sure all of these are checked! Device Drivers >USB Support * Support for Host-side USB * --> USB device filesystem * EHCI HCD (USB 2.0) support * OHCI HCD support * UHCI HCD (most Intel and VIA) support * SL811HS HCD support * USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support * --> HID input layer support
Please use /dev/input/mice instead of mouse0, and attach your kernel .config from both a working kernel and a broken one.
Chris, that made no difference. But Daniel was spot on, must be a udev thing that mouse0 is missing, I checked /etc/conf.d/gpm and it has /dev/input/mice, I should have checked there first.
