Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On an all-cooker and totally up-to-date box, the usb mouse kept > disappearing after a reboot. This was whether or not devfsd was loaded. > > After searching the list, I saw a post by Hoyt that said he used > mousedrake to fix this on his. After much trial and error, I placed > > /usr/sbin/mousedrake --auto >/dev/null 2>&1 > > Right after the last 'if' test in /etc/X11/prefdm. This works, but is > kinda kludgy in the extreme. BTW the redirect is necessary to keep from > screwing up tty1 on init5. > > So, what is it that mousedrake is doing to make the mouse work?
not much. it accesses /dev/psaux and a few other stuff. You can reproduce it with: % perl -I/usr/lib/libDrakX -Mdetect_devices -e 'detect_devices::hasMousePS2("psaux")' It may also tell the X server to change the protocol, but it shouldn't happen in that case. also try disabling gpm?