Comment 230 for bug 296167

OK, I finally reproduced the problem, but the behavior was a little different from before. From when I booted up, the mouse failed to do anything. xev gave nothing. Looking at /proc/bus/input/devices, I noticed that my two mouse devices were missing, and everything else was identical except for a few device numbers that of course changed with a few devices in the middle going away. The following devices went missing:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event5
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=6337
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event6
B: EV=f
B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
B: ABS=1000003

I'll attach my demsg of my original boot tonight (where the mouse device was absent) and my 2nd boot tonight (where the mouse works as it should). Unlike before, nothing could fix the problem, including going to a console and then back to X, logging out and back in, killing X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. The only thing that helped was rebooting.