i got x to work after typing 'modprobe usbmouse'
but the mouse still didnt work.
i tried 'evdev' but x wouldnt load by itself.
my mobo is a a8n-sli running a GF6800. mouse is a mx1000 logitech.
thinking it might be somthing to do with the usb bus, as its not finding any usb devives.
help please!

try the module "hid"

Worked for me with a microsoft mouse. But since you say, no usb device is recognized, there could as well be some other problem.
Maybe you could post the output of /var/log/messages?

still no luck with 'hid'
possibly a problem with using the 'auto' protocol. tried evdev and hid as protocols but still no mouse
/var/log/messages says my USB controller is working though.

Then you could just run xorgsetup, which will create you a new xorg.conf. Just backup the old one and compare it with the new created one, if the new one works.

Anyway, what says /var/log/messages about your mouse?

Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver hub
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver hub
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:53:41 Jun 5 2005
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur kernel: usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug start (exiting script)
Jun 29 17:07:05 excalibur sshd[4758]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jun 29 17:07:17 excalibur dnsmasq[4772]: started, version 2.23 cachesize 150
Jun 29 17:07:17 excalibur dnsmasq[4772]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt ISC-leasefile no-DBus
Jun 29 17:07:17 excalibur dnsmasq[4772]: read /etc/hosts - 3 addresses
Jun 29 17:07:17 excalibur dnsmasq[4772]: reading /etc/resolv.conf
Jun 29 17:07:17 excalibur dnsmasq[4772]: using nameserver 192.168.0.1#53
Jun 29 17:07:18 excalibur kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Jun 29 17:07:18 excalibur kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Jun 29 17:07:18 excalibur kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Jun 29 17:08:25 excalibur kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
Jun 29 17:08:25 excalibur kernel: usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
Jun 29 17:08:25 excalibur kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
Jun 29 17:08:25 excalibur kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hid
Jun 29 17:08:25 excalibur kernel: hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Jun 29 17:08:25 excalibur kernel: hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Jun 29 17:08:25 excalibur kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

Maybe you have just the wrong device entered in your xorg.conf

Try cat /dev/mouse and move your mouse - if you see something on screen happening, this is the device. If nothing happens try cat /dev/input/mice and see what happens there. You can have a look at /dev or /dev/input to see what device are there that could be used for a mouse. If you found out correct device edit your xorg.conf to use the correct device.