Odd mouse issue with new xorg-server

Marco Beishuizen mbeis at xs4all.nl
Sat Apr 28 08:16:40 UTC 2012


On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, the wise Kevin Oberman wrote:

> (WW) PS/2 Mouse: No Device specified, looking for one...
> (II) PS/2 Mouse: Setting Device option to "/dev/psm0"
> (--) PS/2 Mouse: Device: "/dev/psm0"
> (==) PS/2 Mouse: Protocol: "Auto"
> (**) PS/2 Mouse: always reports core events
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psm0"
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0
>        Device busy.
> (EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device
> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
> (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "PS/2 Mouse"
> (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)

I'm having this too. In my case starting X for the second time makes the 
mouse working again.

After some googling I tried adding Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" to my 
xorg.conf and that works too.

Regards,

Marco
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