Mouse stopped working on xorg-server 1.5.3 upgrade.
At “Site 1″ my pet name for the Inscoe compound here in Deltona I have been busy upgrading all the non-experimental Gentoo hosts to now stable xorg-server 1.5.3. Most of them because I keep my configurations modular and straight forward have gone without problem. I did however this Easter morning hit one snag as I upgraded my main workstation before everyone awoke. My mouse suddenly would not work. I am using a Logitech wireless mouse into a Outlook KVM soft-switch. But dutifully I checked the cable connections, plugged a mouse directly into the PS/2 port and still no mouse movement. I had a mouse pointer, the logs show they detected my mouse. I tried changing Options from auto to “Protocol” “IMPS/2″. Made sure the mouse device still existed and the driver loaded. Check, check. I had also rebooted this morning prior to restarting X. I then started googling around and came across this article and this bug report. I tried the bug report first which lead to several changes in my xorg.conf file. None of which worked to restore the mouse movement. I then started reading the article and this mention jumped out at me:
“Just to be safe, run emerge $(qlist -C -I x11-drivers/) -1av to rebuild your X drivers (portage may have updated things in the wrong order, better safe than sorry)”
Then as a lark I decide to re-emerge my X mouse input driver.
# emerge -av x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse
Sure enough I restarted X and viola my mouse now had movement!
So even though everything else seemed to be working ok I followed through with the above advice and ran:
# emerge $(qlist -C -I x11-drivers/) -1av
So despite the one mouse issue the upgrade is now completed with large success.