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hypnotic_meat

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Registered: 2009-04-15

Posts: 32

Mouse not working in X11 [SOLVED]

I can't seem to get the mouse working with X11.  I set up hal to run as a daemon so I don't have an xorg.conf file.  I also tested in X to see if mouse events were firing with cat /dev/input/mice and everything checks out fine.  The cursor even renders, I just can't move it.  I'm using the default touchpad on the laptop I installed Arch on if that's important.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Last edited by hypnotic_meat (2009-04-15 18:46:59)

jdshffff

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Registered: 2009-03-21

Posts: 8

Re: Mouse not working in X11 [SOLVED]

it sounds like you are having a problem with hotplugging

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … otplugging
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69575

hypnotic_meat

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Registered: 2009-04-15

Posts: 32

Re: Mouse not working in X11 [SOLVED]

I appreciate the help, but I already figured out a workaround for the issue I was having.  I looked in the configuration log and saw that AllowEmptyInput was turned on which was causing my mouse device to be disabled.  Putting the following into the xorg.conf file did the trick and gave me mouse power:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowEmptyInput"  "false"
EndSection