Event number changes everytime X loads

[hedron]

Everytime X loads the mouse cursor is frozen, so I have to drop to command line and edit xorg.conf device line. Here's the mouse section:

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "evdev"
    Option         "Protocol" "PS/2"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/event5"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    Option         "Buttons"       "7"
EndSection

Sometimes it's event2 or event4 or whatever. This is happening because I have other event devices that bump my mouse out of control.

Is there a way to force my mouse to use a specific event number? Or is there another solution?

[KingX]

Here is how the mouse section is in my xorg

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option         "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "USB Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option         "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

What other devices are conflicting with the mouse? Are you loading/running any special drivers for your mouse.. other than the ones that come with the kernel? I am not quite sure what the issue is.. you could see if you have a /dev/input/mice or /dev/psaux.. and see if changing to that helps.

[hedron]

Well, the evdev driver (Event Device driver) is a driver that works with joysticks and other input devices. I have joysticks that stick themselves before or after in the que or whatever evdev does to decide what number each device gets. This is what I'm wondering, if there's a way to decide for evdev which physical device attaches to which block device in /dev.

With evdev you use event# not /dev/mouse or whatever.

I'm guessing that sometime during the boot cycle evdev makes this decision. If I was to take a stab at this that fixing it would require knowledge of recoding the driver itself.

 cat /proc/bus/input/devices 
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0 
B: EV=3
B: KEY=10000000000000 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1 
B: EV=3
B: KEY=10000000000000 0

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=045e Product=00db Version=0111
N: Name="Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1a.0-2/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event2 
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=1000000000007 ff800000000007ff febeffdff3cfffff fffffffffffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=107

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=045e Product=00db Version=0111
N: Name="Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1a.0-2/input1
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3 
B: EV=10001f
B: KEY=837fff002c3027 bf00444400000000 1 10f848a27c007 ff7f7bfad9415fff febeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
B: REL=40
B: ABS=100000000
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1532 Product=0101 Version=1001
N: Name="Razer Razer Copperhead Laser Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1a.1-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event4 
B: EV=17
B: KEY=ff0000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1532 Product=0101 Version=1001
N: Name="Razer Razer Copperhead Laser Mouse"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1a.1-1/input1
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5 
B: EV=100013
B: KEY=1000000000007 ff9f207ac14057ff febeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=06a3 Product=0464 Version=0100
N: Name="Saitek Cyborg USB Stick"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event6 js0 
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=fff00000000 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=30027
B: MSC=10