tag 169427 - patch tag 169427 + moreinfo upstream thanks On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:57:03AM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.2.1-3 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch Why did you tag this bug "patch" when there is clearly no patch include? > when one starts a machine with ps2 mouse and keyboard it can happen that > X will *not* activate the keyboard when the mouse has not been plugged > in at boot time. > > That means that VT will work, but X will be completely without input and > there will be no trace of a probleme neither in the logs nor anywhere > else. Even CTRL-Alt-[Del|F1|Backspace] will not show any sign making it > impossible to cleanly shutdown the machine without a network. > > The cause of this is very hard to track down. I've never heard of this problem before. > 1. Please _do_ include: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" > EndSection > > in the default XFConfig-4. This comes from the Knoppix CD, where I > tracked it down, since Debian's and Knoppix X were behaving > differently despite everything else being the same. I'll take it under advisement. > Even better would be if this was _on_ by default in the _xserver_ > itself. That's an upstream issue, worth pursuing with XFree86 upstream; on the xpert@xfree86.org list for instance. > 2. Please also _do_ log the problem clearly in the log files: > > "Mouse not found - disabling keyboard" > > Took me 18 hours to figure out. Another upstream issue. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux | reading the Bible cover to cover. branden@debian.org | Twice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski
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