mouse config causes Xserver to crash

[Craig Hagerman <craighagerman@gmail.com>]

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