Bug#370710: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: fails to use mouse

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

> it seems removing
> any mention of 'corepointer' from the input and layout sections startup
> continues normally with a symlink of any name to the event device, if not, 
> the same error of the type "(EE) PreInit returned NULL for" appears.
> 
> now the mouse needs to have xmodmap run in
> order to have proper use of its keys.

Hi Michael, it might be helpful if you could post your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, or at least the parts of it referring to evdev and
to any other pointers (mouses).

Thanks,
Drew