Issue with mouse when starting X

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:27:21PM -0700, John Ettedgui wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:06:24PM -0700, John Ettedgui wrote:
> >> *Sometimes* when X starts it does detect the mouse as seen in the log
> >> but when I move it nothing happens on screen, and doing a cat on the
> >> /dev/input/eventX does not produce anything either when moving the
> >> mouse.
> >
> > if you don't see events on /dev/input/eventX this is a kernel or, more
> > likely, a hardware issue. device going to sleep, losing connection,
> > something like that.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Peter
> >
> Hi Peter,
> 
> That makes sense.
> Do you know of any kernel log I should look into to see that error?
> Can I look for something in dmesg?

not 100% sure, sorry. best to file a kernel bug.

Cheers,
  Peter