Infuriated by X Deciding not to find a mouse...

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So, I had a power failure this morning, and its been quite a while since I rebooted my machine. When it came back up, first the nouveau driver was loaded, not a huge deal, I blacklisted it, rebooted and my nvidia driver worked fine again, X Started up, and low and behold I have no mouse… I’ve found a lot of people with the same issue, however no one ever seems to give them a way to resolve it…

Can someone PLEASE answer how the hell to fix this before I throw my computer off my 11th storey balcony…

Here’s my current Xorg.conf:


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
    Option        "AllowEmptyInput" "Off"
    #Option        "AutoAddDevices" "On"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "LG Electronics L204WT"
    HorizSync       28.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8500 GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

And the output of X when it starts with that conf:
actually, the boards won’t let me post the whole error, so heres the link to pastebin: http://pastebin.com/JT2PvEQf

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Ok, so I tried a standard corded mouse, and it works…

What the hell is with the logitech mouse that this doesn’t like?

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Don’t do it… Must resist the urge to toss out the computer…

So, I did not catch what version of openSUSE that you are using (or the kind of mouse either), but you do not need a xorg.conf file with version 11.4 and I would suggest you rename it to something else (as root) and then reboot and see if your mouse might start working again.

Thank You,

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k, so a second reboot seems to have fixed the keyboard issues… Mouse still isn’t working right though

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11.4, its an MX Revolution. Tried the renaming and rebooting, didn’t work :frowning:

Looks like now that I’m actually in X with a crappy corded mouse my keyboard is throwing weird events too when I’m typing (like poping up the screenshot app in Gnome)

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UPDATE

I stand corrected, the mouse >>IS<< working not sure what changed… twinview isn’t working though, thats the next thing to fix!

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You restarted the bluetooth daemon.

BTW the InputDevice sections (mouse, keyboard) are ignored and the drivers ‘mouse’ and ‘kbd’ are not used anymore (since 11.3, I guess) … unless you explicitely use

Option       "AutoAddDevices" "Off"

but DON’T do that!

twinview isn’t working though, thats the next thing to fix!

You need two monitor sections in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I see only one. Use nvidia-settings to set up your display. It’s the easiest.