This system was bult just yesterday (4/9/2005) using the latest portage. xorg -configure is trying to find the mouse at /dev/mouse, but emerge puts it in /dev/inputs/mice. This is a simple script error. I found the error after looking at my Ubuntu /etc/X11/xorg.conf! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.update portage to the 4/8/2005 version 2.emerge xorg-X11 3.xorg -configure 4.x -config /root/xorg.conf.new Actual Results: x fails because no mouse is detected. Looking at the file shows that is is trying to find the mouse at /dev/mouse. there is no such file. Looking at an Ubuntu setup, I found that the mouse was in /dev/intputs/mice. coming back to gentoo, I looked and sure enough, that's where the emerge put gentoo's mouse as well. Expected Results: The -config script should know where the emerge puts the device files. Modifying the xorg.conf file to correct the path to the mouse fixed the problem. Since it was all emered at the same time, it should have the right information. This is a brand new install using a minimal install cd on a multiboot system with Windows, SUSE 9.2 and Ubuntu Hoary already installed. gentoo is going on hdb2(/boot), hdb4 (/swap), and hdb6(/).
Please file this at bugs.freedesktop.org, in the xorg product. It's not a function of emerge where your mouse shows up -- it's your device manager: in this case, udev, which doesn't set up a /dev/mouse symlink by default. It may be a useful suggestion for X -configure to check in a few more locations for the mouse, however, which is why you might want to file the bug. Please post the URL here. Thanks!
