[Solved] Mouse not moving! but clicking works [Solved: downgraded X]

Synss · 2009-08-10 08:34:52

I upgraded today after a relatively long time without touching the system. So quiet a lot of things went new, like Xorg and the kernel.

The mouse (touchpad) stopped moving, however, I can right/left click and it responds. I use the evdev driver and no xorg.conf and had no problem with that before. I tried xf86-...-mouse and it does not help. xorg.0.log does not report any relevant error (after grep EE xorg.0.log and grep WW xorg.0.log). No apparent problem either with hald, dbus, etc. Tapping does not work either.
It was working before I reboot, so I can exclude a hardware problem, too.

Follows grep -i mouse Xorg.0.log

(==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: always reports core events
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Configuring as mouse
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Macintosh mouse button emulation" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) config/hal: Adding input device PS/2 Mouse
(**) PS/2 Mouse: always reports core events
(**) PS/2 Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event5"
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Configuring as mouse
(**) PS/2 Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) PS/2 Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2 Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) PS/2 Mouse: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Device reopened after 1 attempts.

I am confused!

Last edited by Synss (2009-08-11 06:04:16)

jelly · 2009-08-10 08:56:42

did you install synaptics and configure it in Xorg.conf ?

Synss · 2009-08-10 10:01:56

Thank you for your interest. I did not install synaptics and am (was?) relying on evdev: I have no xorg.conf and did not need one so far.

Anntoin · 2009-08-10 23:43:12

Just had this problem myself. Had two problems so I'll describe them both here.

After doing pacman -Syu to update my system X would not start, I was just left with a blank screen after boot - I use nvidia drivers so the blank screen was at the point where I would normally see the nvidia logo.

Downgrading the nvidia driver from version 185.18.31-1 to 185.18.14-1 ( pacman -U #name of older package#) solved the blank screen problem. However when I logged in I could use the mouse buttons but not move the cursor. To fix this I downgraded first the xorg-server from 1.6.3-2 to 1.6.2-1 and xf86-input-evdev from 2.2.3-1 to 2.2.2-1. Everthing is back to normal now.

If anyone needs more details let me know. Hope this helps.

Synss · 2009-08-11 06:08:19

Thank you very much Anntoin, I see you just created an account to answer my problem. This is really appreciated. And downgrading xorg-server, xf86-input-evdev and xf86-video-intel to the latest previously available in my case also worked. Looks like a regression in X or evdev, I will see to file a bug. Thank you again.

Edit: reported bug 15894

Last edited by Synss (2009-08-11 06:46:26)

Gen2ly · 2009-08-11 09:03:39

Yeah, I was having this problem too. First came about when I tried to play penumbra did a couple reboots after and never had a problem. After that though the mouse would lock-up. I could unplug/plug it back in and it would be enabled again. Downgrading to xorg-server-1.6.2-1 and xf86-input-evdev-2.2.2-1 looks to have fixed it.

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#1 2009-08-10 08:34:52

[Solved] Mouse not moving! but clicking works [Solved: downgraded X]

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Re: [Solved] Mouse not moving! but clicking works [Solved: downgraded X]

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Re: [Solved] Mouse not moving! but clicking works [Solved: downgraded X]

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Re: [Solved] Mouse not moving! but clicking works [Solved: downgraded X]

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