Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have two hosts (x86_64) & (x86) running and after apt-get dist-upgrade 
> > this morning, I can no longer use my keyboard/mouse on either after a 
> > reboot on both machines?
> >
> > Has anyone experienced anthing similar?
> >
> > On the x86 host it is ps2(kbd)+usb(mouse).
> > On the x86_64 host it is usb(kbd)+usb(mouse).
> >
> > Justin.
> >
> >
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> Appears to be a known issue:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364932
>
> Well here is the fix:
> http://osdir.com/ml/debian-bugs-closed/2009-09/msg02262.html
>
> Quote:
>
> The evdev X driver can't work if the CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV option is disabled
> in your kernel configuration. You'll have to either enable this kernel
> option, or disable the "AutoAddDevices" option in xorg.conf.
>
> # grep CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV  .config
> # CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is not set
>
> Trying now.

So this fixes the issue (w/ the kernel config option); to where I can use 
my keyboard and mouse. however, now there is an annoying lagging with the
mouse cursor, I will remove this and try the AutoAddDevices option in xorg.conf
to see if it fixes it.

I have been using the following mouse setting for many years:

xset m 20/5 1

It no longer works the same anymore either with the new X server (I am 
guessing this is the culprit) however I will try the AutoAddDevices and 
disable the kernel event interface to see if this returns the mouse 
acceleration back to normal.

Justin.