Re: mouse config causes Xserver to crash
Hi
I had this same problem after the upgrade from udev-0.070-2 to 3/4. I
changed to hotplug and everything worked perfectly. On my
system /dev/input/mice was not created with the faulty udev package.
Hope it helps
Gudjon
On Thursday 13 October 2005 18:46, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am still having troubles with a recent upgrade. This time I have no
> GUI display at all. I have tracked the problem down to the mouse
> configuration in the xorg.conf file, but don't know what I should do
> from here.
>
> On start up it throws up the nvidia spash screen a couple times, then
> tells me it can't start the Xserver. In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see
> this:
>
> (**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
> (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
> No such device.
> (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
> (**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
> (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
> (**) Option "CorePointer"
> (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
> No such device.
> (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
> (WW) No core pointer registered
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type:
> KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler"
> (type: Other) No core pointer
>
> Fatal server error:
> failed to initialize core devices
>
> >From everything I have read online I am sure that /dev/input/mice is
>
> correct. I also tried /dev/input/mouse0 and /dev/mouse0 but either
> helped. From the above I gather the module (mouse) got loaded OK, but
> it can't find the device for the mouse. This is weird. Any ideas on
> how I can get it to see the mouse.
>
> Also, isn't it weird that a mouse would cause the xserver to not start?
>
> Craig
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