Hi, About 18 months ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding Xserver failing to start when an evdev-driven mouse is not connected. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With Xorg/Etch? With latest xserver-xorg-core and drivers in unstable? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. Note that the evdev config now requires you to use a /dev/input/eventX file, see the manpage for details. Thanks, Brice