[06:20] <alkisg> Hi, when I boot an office PC the USB mouse doesn't work. It does show up in lsusb and it *does work* if I unplug and re-plug it, so I'm thinking it might be a xorg issue. Any troubleshooting tips? Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit, i5 system, microsoft mouse. The mouse works fine in windows as well.
[06:23] <tjaalton> input issues are kernel bugs
[06:23] <tjaalton> try evtest, if you don't see events then that's a kernel bug for sure
[06:23] <tjaalton> or bios
[06:23] <alkisg> xev didn't produce events
[06:23] <tjaalton> or hw
[06:24] <alkisg> I'll try evtest, thanks
[08:34] <alkisg> Yup, evtest doesn't list the mouse as an input device even though lsusb does show it. After unplug/re-plug it works. I'll check with #ubuntu-kernel
[17:41] <smallfoot-> Why does X.Org Server run as root?
[17:41] <smallfoot-> Why does not X.Org server run without root privileges?
[17:42] <smallfoot-> When will CVE-2015-180[2,3,4] get patched? http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2015-March/057236.html
[18:10] <furkan> smallfoot-: you might find this informative/useful https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Rootless
[18:34] <smallfoot-> thanks furkan 
[19:02] <smallfoot-> furkan, last edited 2010 lol
[19:37] <furkan> smallfoot-: yeah a lot of those help pages are pretty old, but i think that one is still accurate RE: the non-free drivers not supporting KMS
[19:38] <furkan> *wiki pages, rather
[19:56] <smallfoot-> but I heard that Fedora runs X without root
[19:56] <smallfoot-> at least with the drivers that support it
[19:56] <smallfoot-> I wish Ubuntu did too
[20:21] <tjaalton> no it doesn't
[20:22] <tjaalton> not by default anyway
[20:23] <tjaalton> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078902 still open
[21:24] <smallfoot-> Oh, I thought it was already fixed
[21:24] <smallfoot-> Is there any similar bug filed against Ubuntu on Launchpad?