On Tue, Jan 15 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> The external (USB) mouse on one of my laptops stopped working. >> I tried a keyboard and that failed as well. >> >> There are two USB ports and the mouse fails on both (only tried the >> keyboard on one). >> >> I can dual boot into windows and there the mouse does work on both >> ports. >> >> The kernel is unchanged (3.5.4). This seems to have happened around the >> last udev update (now 197-r2), which caused other problems (these have >> been repaired using suggestions from this group). >> >> I would appreciate any help. > > The usual info is necessary: do you mean they stopped working on X? Do > you use a xorg.conf? Do you use xf86-input-evdev? > > Regards.
Yes, under X. No xorg.conf. I just have /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf (see below). Yes, xf86-input-evdev is installed. thanks, allan ... I just went to re-confirm that tail -f /var/log/messages shows nothing when the mouse is inserted/removed (I did that test yesterday) and all-of-a-sudden IT WORKS! The mouse is fine. I looked at what was emerged today (~amd64) and don't see anything relevant. Thanks for your interest. ================================================================ I believe this is the default, but here is 10-evdev.conf # # Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems # We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers # and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below # matches everything but joysticks. Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev pointer catchall" MatchIsPointer "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" EndSection Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall" MatchIsKeyboard "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" EndSection Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall" MatchIsTouchpad "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" EndSection Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev tablet catchall" MatchIsTablet "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" EndSection Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall" MatchIsTouchscreen "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" EndSection