[hardy] USB mouse does not work on PowerPC live cd (20080413).

There are several reports on ubuntuforums.org about this bug.

I updated all the way from early Hardy alphas, and that line isn't in my xorg.conf, so my usb mouse works. I put that line in, and the mouse was dead, and the line was subsequently removed.
Wonder why that Option wasn't in my early G5 iMac's xorg.conf?

This "fix" to the xorg package at April 10th killed the mouse on PowerPC:

Changes:
 xorg (1:7.3+10ubuntu8) hardy; urgency=low
 .
   * dexconf: Add CorePointer to the default mouse section, otherwise
     the server defaults are used. (LP: #197337)

Please attach your Xorg.0.log with the CorePointer option in place.

Oh, and please try also using "mouse" instead of vmmouse, does it work then?

I have attached the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file made with "vmmouse" and Option "CorePointer".

The mouse works fine when "vmmouse" is changed to "mouse" even with Option "CorePointer" in place.

So you just lack the xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse package? You should have xserver-xorg-input-all installed, which pulls -vmmouse.

Oh, duh.. vmmouse is not available for powerpc :)

I'll fix it asap.

This bug was fixed in the package xorg - 1:7.3+10ubuntu9

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xorg (1:7.3+10ubuntu9) hardy; urgency=low

  * control: Add an epoch to the "x11-common Replaces xrgb" version.
    (LP: #212672)
  * dexconf, failsafeDexconf: Revert back to using "mouse" by default, and
    use vmmouse_detect to determine if the system is a virtual machine and
    if yes, use vmmouse and set the device path. (LP: #216667, #216276)
  * control: xserver-xorg needs to Depend on mdetect instead of Recommends.

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:35:12 +0300

Erm, I was about to say that this morning, vmmouse showed up in my xorg, and then when doing a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, it replaced it with the old Option CorePointer on my G5 iMac.

Back to testing before I put foot in mouth. Easy for me to do. :)