Bug 19168

Summary:	New mouse devices created causing X to loose mouse
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	dan <overvolting>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	seemant
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description dan 2003-04-11 17:01:55 UTC

Ok, my mouse is /dev/input/mouse0 
Yesterday i came home and mouse wasnt working in Xfree 4.3.0-r1. 
I found out that somehow /dev/input/mouse0 was no longer working and now there was 
a new /dev/input/mouse1 created all by itself. I told X to use that and restarted it, and 
that fixed it. 
Today it happened again, but now i have /dev/input/mouse2 
What's going on? :) 
 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-11 23:13:21 UTC

please post: emerge info

Comment 2 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-27 02:23:40 UTC

try using /dev/input/mice

Comment 3 dan 2003-05-01 20:54:45 UTC

maybe that would work. Right now I'm using /dev/gpmdata because gpm is running. 
Still it's strange.

Comment 4 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-09 17:08:06 UTC

well, never did get the emerge info or full system info.
comment #2 is your best option for xfree.

closing.

Comment 5 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-25 14:23:32 UTC

db issue