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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

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Help - No Mouse!

After the latest upgrade this morning, I lost my mouse. It shows up in the middle of the screen, but no movement. I've checked in multiple desktops/wms including xfce4 and fluxbox. has Arch changed the device name? I have a standard 3-button MS USB mouse, /dev/input/mice in xorg.conf. hwd shows:

Generic PS/2 Wheel mouse xtype: PS2 device: /dev/psaux

but it's always been /dev/input/mice in xorg.conf. I tried changing it to /dev/psaux with no success, but I notice there's also a /dev/input/mouse0, so I'll try changing it to that to see if that works after I post this.

The only other thing I noticed is that module i2c_isa no longer loads. Not sure if the mouse is related to that or not, or if i2c_isa has been replaced with i2c_core or what. xf86-input-mouse is up to date. USB works with my camera and palm, so I don't think it's USB. Any help appreciated, KB only is getting old fast!

>> well, it's not the hardware. i was afraid my motherboard might have yakked on me, but i booted into slax and both the USB and a PS2 mouse worked fine. I rebuilt the kernel image in case it missed a module, checked the bios - everything's the same there (worked in slax anyway, so that's obviously not it), and tried /dev/input/mouse0.

here's lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
radeon                122400  2 
ipv6                  250468  10 
cpufreq_ondemand        7180  1 
ohci_hcd               20100  0 
snd_via82xx            23192  0 
snd_mpu401_uart         7168  1 snd_via82xx
ehci_hcd               32012  0 
rtc_cmos                7584  0 
rtc_core               14984  1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib                 3072  1 rtc_core
k8temp                  4864  0 
shpchp                 29332  0 
pci_hotplug            26784  1 shpchp
uhci_hcd               22416  0 
amd64_agp               9860  1 
i2c_viapro              8084  0 
evdev                   8192  4 
thermal                12956  0 
fan                     4100  0 
button                  6544  0 
ac                      4356  0 
powernow_k8            14100  0 
freq_table              4112  2 cpufreq_ondemand,powernow_k8
processor              27992  2 thermal,powernow_k8
visor                  17932  0 
usbserial              30312  1 visor
drm                    71572  3 radeon
nvidia_agp              6940  0 
agpgart                27096  3 amd64_agp,drm,nvidia_agp
via_rhine              20744  0 
mii                     4992  1 via_rhine
snd_seq_oss            29312  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46800  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            36896  0 
snd_mixer_oss          14464  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_cs46xx             78408  3 
gameport               11784  3 snd_via82xx,snd_cs46xx
snd_rawmidi            19232  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_cs46xx
snd_seq_device          6924  3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec         95268  2 snd_via82xx,snd_cs46xx
ac97_bus                2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                68996  4 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm_oss,snd_cs46xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19332  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    44644  16 snd_via82xx,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_cs46xx,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6496  2 snd
snd_page_alloc          8072  3 snd_via82xx,snd_cs46xx,snd_pcm
w83781d                25644  0 
hwmon_vid               3328  1 w83781d
i2c_core               20096  2 i2c_viapro,w83781d
usbcore               123016  6 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,visor,usbserial
ext3                  119560  8 
jbd                    54440  1 ext3
mbcache                 7040  1 ext3
ide_cd                 35360  0 
cdrom                  33952  1 ide_cd
ide_floppy             15872  0 
via82cxxx               8324  0 [permanent]
generic                 4740  0 [permanent]
ide_disk               14208  11 
ide_core              111172  5 ide_cd,ide_floppy,via82cxxx,generic,ide_disk

the ease of arch has spoiled me. I can't think of what else to check ATM. :confused:

Okay - I got my old PS/2 mouse working at least - just forgot to load the psmouse module for that one. Still no USB mouse though - any ideas? thankx.

Last edited by slackhack (2007-10-27 17:43:51)