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Erm,.... check what I wrote and what you wrote! Note the difference?
A USB mouse uses another inputsystem that create device files in /dev/input. There should be several /dev/input/mouseX and one /dev/input/mice and a couple others. "mice" stands for all mouseX together.
To check whether it's there or not, do a `cat /dev/input/mice` and move your mouse. You should see gibberish. Those are signals from your mouse and they mean that the device is working.
Then you have to change "/dev/mouse" to "/dev/input/mice".
yes, you are right, using cat /dev/input/mice, the mouse was generating something on the screen. However, after modified the XF86Config as you told, startx cannot work. so I turned it back to the old setting( the one showed in old post), and
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