| Summary: | invalid mouse option in /etc/X11/XF86Config causes startx to freeze | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Chris Hoogenboezem <root> |
| Component: | [OLD] Unspecified | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
I spent a day on resolving this. Whenever I tried to start X (be it for
configuration purposes with xf86cfg, or via 'startx'), my system froze. None of
the input devices worked anymore (no keyboard and no mouse [not even numlock or
contrl+alt+delete]), although I was able to enter the system via SSH - it didn't
crash. I found out this was due to the following directive in /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
I have an USB mouse, and no mouse attached to the PS/2 port. When I changed the
above mentioned line to "/dev/usbmouse", it worked fine. No logfile entry had
been made by X. My mouse got detected by the kernel, though, since in 'dmesg' it
mentions the following:
input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical®] on usb1:2.0
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Issue 'startx', or anything that fires up X.
Actual Results:
I got a mouse cursor, that was it. The system freezed after that, and I was
unable to perform any action on the local console until I rebooted.
Expected Results:
It should have given me a fully functional X-interface. :)
I have a VIA chipset and an USB HUB, which I detached during the problem. I also
detached every other USB device, without any result.
The mouse not working is standard behaviour as far as im concerned. If you have a USB mouse you should set the device as one of /dev/usbmouse or /dev/input/something depending on your USB devices. Unless of couse you have /dev/mouse set as a symlink to as USB mouse. The fact that the system locks up could mean other things. Generally if nothing is there the server just exits and fails. Reporter: Does this still happen with the latest XFree versions? |
I spent a day on resolving this. Whenever I tried to start X (be it for configuration purposes with xf86cfg, or via 'startx'), my system froze. None of the input devices worked anymore (no keyboard and no mouse [not even numlock or contrl+alt+delete]), although I was able to enter the system via SSH - it didn't crash. I found out this was due to the following directive in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" I have an USB mouse, and no mouse attached to the PS/2 port. When I changed the above mentioned line to "/dev/usbmouse", it worked fine. No logfile entry had been made by X. My mouse got detected by the kernel, though, since in 'dmesg' it mentions the following: input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical