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  • This may or may not be relevant to your problem, but it's worth trying. Most gaming mice and keyboards these days register as both a keyboard and a mouse, so that they can play tricks with macros. For this reason, it's a good idea to tie the pointer and the keyboard sections to the right USB IDs, or to the right physical port. Something like this: Option "Phys" "usb-0000:00:14.0-10.2/input0". This way your mouse won't take over the "main" keyboard, nor the keyboard would take over the "main" mouse. Commented Jun 26, 2016 at 6:53
  • What configuration did you make? Copy-paste the relevant file names and content. How does X start — what display manager do you use? Commented Jun 26, 2016 at 12:39
  • X11 logs (typically /var/log/Xorg.0.log) should also provide information about what's going on. Commented Jun 26, 2016 at 19:35