Second call for X testers.

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:35:35PM +0800, John wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:10:47AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> >>No questions. X didn't start because I did not have a mouse plugged in 
> >>(and
> >>thus, udev did not create /dev/input/mice). Would it be possible to allow 
> >>X
> >>to start without /dev/input/mice?
> >>
> >> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
> >>         No such file or directory.
> >> (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
> >> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
> >> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
> >> (WW) No core pointer registered
> >> No core pointer
> >
> >The canonical answer to this is no - I could give you AllowMouseOpenFail
> >as the default, but then you plug a mouse in ... and nothing happens,
> >because you told X to ignore the fact that device opening would fail,
> >and so it, er, did.
> >
> >Giving X hotplug input support isn't a bounty proposition, it's a 'give
> >me a few months in a cave' proposition; the easiest way would really be
> >to have udev/the kernel always have a dummy mouse around.
> 
> I don't undserstand this.
> 
> Some years ago, when I was running the then-current Red Hat Linux 7.3, I 
> bought a USB trackball.
> 
> I plugged it in, it worked. I did not need to logout, I did not need to 
> restart X, I did not even need to configure it.
> 
> I plugged it it, it worked. RH already had configured a USB mouse in 
> addition to whatever I had plugged in at the time I last booted.

Yes, and Ubuntu will work if you already have a device around -- I
believe that this problem is now also fixed by ensuring that a mouse
device is always present for X to read.

:) d

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
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