I offer you this fine speciman of a bug.  Some of the comments are fedora
related (I was recommended to this bug forum) but the fact remains that X
-configure fails to properly configure the mouse and running X after that
trashes the console and keyboard while the machine still accepts ssh connections.


Looks like the rodent moved but xorg didnt.

yum update fc-devel xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.1
fairly complete update save Xchat, ooffice.org and their missing deps.  running
fc-devel kernel-2.6.9-1.650_devel.  Thinkpad 600x neomagic, ps/2 pointer.

X -configure failes to detect mouse.

resulting in:


(**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
        No such file or directory.
(EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
...
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
No core pointer

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
...
FatalError re-entered, aborting
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting


xorg.conf from X -configure

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection


This should be

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

running mouseconfig makes no changes (even if the file
is corrected).

The incorrect config results in X trashing the display and keyboard input which
I see was reported upstream as instructed.  The machine will appear dead to new
users on run level 5.

/etc/sysconfig/mouse
FULLNAME="Generic - 3 Button Mouse (PS/2)"
MOUSETYPE="imps2"
XEMU3="no"
XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2"
DEVICE=/dev/input/mice

Expected results are working X11.