[Linux-disciples] (Breezy) X.org and /dev/input/mice

Adam Rosi-Kessel adam at rosi-kessel.org
Thu Jul 14 09:37:46 EDT 2005


Have you tried

	mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63

???

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> X.org is failing to start because /dev/input/mice doesn't
> exist. I looked in /dev/input, and I've got
> 
> event0 event1 event2 event3 mouse0 mouse1 ts0 ts1
> 
> Those mouse* devices are only there, it turns out, because I
> had the mousedev module loaded. If I change the line in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf from
> 
> 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
> to
> 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mouse0"
> 
> , X.org starts but gives me an immobile mouse. So that's not
> the right approach.
> 
> Everything seemed to be working fine as of last night, and
> I've not upgraded since then. 
> 
> How does one get /dev/input/mice? 
> 
> 
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