[TriLUG] Mouse not working with 3.12 kernel

[Sean Alexandre]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:35:24PM -0800, Phil Smith wrote:
> You should also take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see how X is handling the keyboard and mouse.  

Thanks. I think this is it. I get nothing in Xorg.0.log with the 3.12 (custom built)
kernel but do get this with the Debian kernel:

[ 31073.173] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB Optical Mouse (/dev/input/mouse1)
[ 31073.173] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 31073.173] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 31073.175] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB Optical Mouse (/dev/input/event13)
[ 31073.175] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 31073.175] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Logitech USB Optical Mouse'
[ 31073.175] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: always reports core events
[ 31073.175] (**) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event13"
[ 31073.175] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Vendor 0x46d Product 0xc018
[ 31073.175] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
[ 31073.175] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
[ 31073.175] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Found relative axes
[ 31073.175] (--) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
[ 31073.175] (II) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Configuring as mouse
[ 31073.175] (II) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Adding scrollwheel support
[ 31073.175] (**) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 31073.176] (**) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 31073.176] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/input/input14/event13"
[ 31073.176] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Optical Mouse" (type: MOUSE, id 13)
[ 31073.176] (II) evdev: Logitech USB Optical Mouse: initialized for relative axes.
[ 31073.176] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 31073.177] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[ 31073.177] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 31073.177] (**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4

I'm going to learn more about configuring X11, and try the config command you
suggested.