[clug] and now the working version

[Michael Cohen]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 06:10:53PM +1100, Dale Baldwin wrote:
> (**) Option "Protocol" "auto"
> (**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/mouse"
> (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "auto"
> (**) Option "CorePointer"
> (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
> 	No such file or directory.
> (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"

I'd say theres a good chance thats the reason the X server will not come up.
/dev/mouse is normally a symlink to something like /dev/input/mice check that.
Also make sure you have the mouse interface enabled in your kernel config.

If you dont have /dev/input/mice its possible that udev is broken. Look for
something like this in dmesg:

[    5.176417] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

Michael.

This is the relevant snipped from my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
EndSection