keyboard and mouse stop working after starting X

[John Ellson]

oliver frommel wrote:

>Hello,
>after several successful upgrades to RC5 I am having some problems
>with keyboard and mouse on another machine. On boot everything
>works fine, both deviced get detected properly:
>
>input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
>input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
>
>When I try to start X (Nvidia board) the machine seems to
>lock up. However it just seems to lose control over keyboard
>and mouse.
>
>The X server says:
>(EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
>(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
>
>Of course the device that's configured in xorg.conf
>doesn't exist:
>        Identifier  "Mouse0"
>        Driver      "mouse"
>        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>
>Isn't udev supposed to take care for that?
>Or do I really have to supply the strange device names
>from above in the X config?
>Additionally mouse and keyboard stopped working in
>the console, too.
>
>thanks for your help
>Oliver
>
>  
>
I believe that you need to change "/dev/psaux" to "/dev/input/mice"

I don't know why udev, or some other upgrade package, failed to take 
care of this.
Its bitten lots of people.

John