Reported by Ben Goodrich on the Debian BTS. He's using Xorg 7.3. He tried mouse git master, it didn't help. Log and config available at the URL above. He says: Hello, Today I updated to the new xserver and xorg in unstable, but the mouse is not working on my X41 Tablet PC laptop. I can see the pointer, but it does not move or click. Information about the hardware can be found here: http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X41_Tablet In particular, it has the kind of mouse that is a small red trackball in the middle of the keyboard, rather than a trackpad. I have never had any problems with the mouse before. I can send more info, but I don't know what to send at this point beyond all the information that comes automatically at the bottom of this. It is possible that there is some sort of conflict with the ability of a Tablet PC to use the stylus as a mouse, but I commented out wacom in /etc/modules and commented out the stylus and eraser-related lines in xorg.conf.
the log in the debian bugzilla has the line "(**) USB Mouse: doesn't report core events" after some warning in the log (WW) Duplicate core pointer devices. Removing core pointer attribute from "USB Mouse" so no core events are sent from this device, hence 99% of all apps won't notice the device is there. Swap the line in ServerLayout to InputDevice "USB Mouse" "SendCoreEvents"
Peter Hutterer's suggestion to Swap the line in ServerLayout to InputDevice "USB Mouse" "SendCoreEvents" fixed the mouse issue. This bug can be closed. Thanks, Ben
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