Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:52:51PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> There's no agenda behind this; I merely suspected it being a bad
>> interaction with whatever's being used to manage device nodes, since
>> from the above, it doesn't appear to be the kernel itself having trouble.
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:04:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> I don't understand you, or maybe you don't understand me. The real
> problem is with X, X has one and one only core pointer, which is set to
> psaux on most systems since most users have a ps2 mouse. IF the ps2
> device is missing, then X refuses to start. This could maybe be solved
> by a psaux->input/mice link or something, maybe.
> X being the main app though, we have to care about it.
The symlink sounds like a good idea to me. I'm not sure why X is dead
set on a given device node, but so be it. Who owns MKDEV?
-- wli
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