Bug#433036: xserver-xorg: Mouse stopped working after update
* Brice Goglin (2007-07-14) writes:
> If you already tried downgrading to 2.6.18, I don't see what could cause
> the problem then. Does anything interesting appear in dmesg?
Not really:
# dmesg | grep -C 1 mouse
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP bic registered
> Is psmouse
> or any other required mouse module loaded?
Oh, psmouse was _not_ loaded! Loading it made the mouse pointer
responsive again. Thanks for the hint!
Now I just wonder why this is not loaded automatically anymore. There
appeared a new version of module-init-tools. Could that be the culprit?
> Things like udev might be involved,
The installation I have here is about three years old and is still
working with devfs. I guess I should bite the bullet soon and install
udev. (c:
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Ralf
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