RE: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice: No Such Device

[Ed Young <eddythejekyll@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the replies!

Running
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -plow 
Didn't change anything. What is the -plow switch for? Is that "priority
low"?

A search in the debian user archives yeilded some similar problems and
suggestions. 
I ran 
Modprobe mousedev
And then issued: 
Startx 

And now X starts(!) but the mouse doesn't work :(

Now Dmesg returns: 
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: deregistering driver usbmouse
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

XFree86.0.log returns: 
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver
(**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
(**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 5
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type:
MOUSE)
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded

So when I added the mousedev module, X will run, but the mouse doesn't
work?

Any ideas?

Thanks, 

Ed


-----Original Message-----
From: Karl O. Pinc [mailto:kop@meme.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:34 PM
To: Ed Young
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice: No
Such Device



On 01/11/2006 12:54:00 PM, Ed Young wrote:
> I can't get X to start because apparently because the mouse device 
> can't be found, though the device directory entry seems to be there:
> Falcon:/etc/X11# ls -la /dev/input/mice
> crw-rw----  1 root root 13, 63 2005-02-25 23:43 /dev/input/mice

Random things to try:

Check your dmesg output (or /var/log/dmesg) to be sure
that the kernel recognises the mouse.  Likewise
check the logs (/var/log/messages I suppose.)


Karl <kop@meme.com>
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