Re: Bug#169427: xserver-xfree86: not enabling "AllowMouseOpenFail" can cause X fail to have a keyboard if _mouse_ is not plugged in
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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?
Because I've included a snipplet of a config file which I consider ripe
for addition. But I agree that might be a bit to blown up.
> > 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.
Do you imply with this I should subscribe to that list and try to get
myself heard there?
> > 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.
dito?
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