F9: usb mouse not working in X (solved)

[Riku Seppälä]

Patrick wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 04:03 +0100, Patrick wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just installed F9 x86_64, rebooted into runlevel 3, updated it with no
>> less than 500+ packages (all except xorg-x11-xinit which needs a newer
>> dbus) and rebooted into runlevel 5. I get to firstboot where my usb
>> mouse works but when it continues to boot into regular X the usb mouse
>> no longer works. Known issue? Is there a possible fix? Bugzilla?
>>
>> When I plug the mouse in /var/log/messages says:
>> usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
>> usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> input: Logitech Optical USB Mouse
>> as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input12
>> input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on
>> usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
>>     
>
> Apologies for replying to my own post. I found the solution and it might
> benefit others who encounter this issue.
>
> What I forgot to mention is that I'm using a laptop with a synaptics
> touchpad and a usb mouse. The configs on F8 & F9 are the same but after
> comparing the log files I noticed that there is a difference in what X
> decides about the touchpad reporting core events. 
>
> On F8 it says "(**) <default pointer>: always reports core events"
> On F9 it says "(**) <default pointer>: doesn't report core events"
>
> On F9 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf changing this line:
> InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
> to
> InputDevice    "Synaptics" "AlwaysCore"
>
> will make the usb mouse work again.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>
>   
Thanks, that did it. :)

Riku