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cbarnes913

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Registered: 2005-03-26

Posts: 28

Strange issue with xorg 7 and mice [SOLVED]

When I start xorg7, I get no display until I send input from the mouse.  It seems to sit there forever until I move the mouse, at which point it loads up the graphical display.

xorg.conf relevent snippet:

...

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Default Layout"
    Screen        "Default Screen"
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"    "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"    "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

...

Thanks,
CB

cbarnes913

Member

Registered: 2005-03-26

Posts: 28

Re: Strange issue with xorg 7 and mice [SOLVED]

The problem was caused by the not having a "CorePointer" option for any input devices.  Therefore, it would wait until it found something appropriate to use as a CorePointer before it would continue to load.  "AlwaysCore" is not good enough without another device with "CorePointer".

Please correct me if am mistaken about what is actually going on.

The original post has been edited to show only information relevent to the problem.  This was solved by reading over the xorg logs in /var/log/, so read your logs, kids.

CB