No Cursor Movement in X: Slackware-12.1

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Dec 2 05:57:44 PST 2008


   If this is not the appropriate list to ask for help, please point me to
the proper place. I may not have e-mail access during my business trip this
week unless a text browser will allow me to connect to the hotel's server.

   I just upgraded my Sony Vaio PCG-V505BC from Slackware-12.0 to -12.1 and
now the cursor won't move when I start X. Neither the touchpad nor an
external USB mouse will move it. However, both the touchpad and an external
mouse work on the console with gpm running.

   The required driver is psmouse, but xorg.conf must have something
incorrect (or missing) since it no longer works. Here is the file:

# Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Lincoln D. Durey <www.EmperorLinux.com> GNU-GPL
# BlackPerl V505BC XGA XF86Config  ATI Radeon M6 X-4.3.0  1024x768x24bpp LCD
# USB mouse enabled in the kernel, won't fail if USB support is not present.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "BlackPerl V505BC X-430"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "USBMouse0"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
    Option "BlankTime" "5"
    Option "StandbyTime" "7"
    Option "SuspendTime" "10"
    Option "OffTime" "15"
    #Option "NoTrapSignals"
    #Option "DontZap"
    #Option "DontZoom"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/util"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "GLcore"
    Load "record"
    Load "extmod"
    Load "dbe"
    Load "type1"
    Load "speedo"
    SubSection "extmod"
       Option  "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"
    Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
    Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
    Option "AlwaysCore"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "USBMouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "AlwaysCore"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
    Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "LCD Panel internal"
    VendorName "Sony"
    ModelName "V505BC XGA"
    HorizSync 28-103
    VertRefresh 40-110
    Gamma 1.0 1.0 1.0
    # muse use "xset dpms 300 0 0" for DPMS
    Option "DPMS"

    Modeline "1400x1050" 107.85 1400 1450 1500 1999 1050 1058 1070 1150
    ModeLine "1400x1050" 122.00 1400 1464 1784 1912 1050 1052 1064 1090 -HSync 
-VSync
    ModeLine "1400x1050" 155.00 1400 1464 1784 1912 1050 1052 1064 1090 -HSync 
-VSync
    ModeLine "1400x1050" 189.65 1400 1464 1784 1912 1050 1052 1064 1090 -HSync 
-VSync
    Modeline "1280x1024-75" 135 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync 
+vsync
    Modeline "1280x1024-60" 108 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync 
+vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "ATI Radeon M6"
    Driver "ati"
    VendorName "ATI"
    BoardName "ATI Radeon M6 LY"
    BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "ATI Radeon M6"
    Monitor "LCD Panel internal"
    DefaultDepth 24
    DefaultFbBpp 32

    SubSection "Display"
       Depth 8
       Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection

    SubSection "Display"
       Depth 16
       Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection

    SubSection "Display"
       Depth 24
       Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection

    SubSection "Display"
       Depth 32
       Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

   I've been trying to get this to work for two days now and would greatly
appreciate any and all help. I need the notebook for a business trip this
week and not being able to run X applications will be a major hinderance.

TIA,

Rich

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