retitle 255744 xserver-xfree86: [mouse] X server can fail to start if psmouse module managed by hotplug tag 255744 + help upstream thanks On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:38:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > If the system is powered up and X is started by kdm, X will often fail > because of a missing core pointer. Starting X manually immediately after > (e.g. using /etc/init.d/kdm start), always succeeds. > The problem goes away if psmouse is added to /etc/modules. [...] > This means that psmouse is only loaded after X is started and probes for > the presence of the core pointer. I think the time out allowed by X is > to short for the drivers to load, so X can't find the mouse, the load > fails and the user is returned to the console. > > Adding psmouse in /etc/modules ensures that the drivers are loaded much > earlier in the bootprocess, so X is able to locate the mouse without > problem. I seek advice on this. Is the right thing to do to hack up the X server's mouse driver to keep poking the port? Should this be done for all drivers in general? I am not sure whose fault this bug is. -- G. Branden Robinson | I have a truly elegant proof of the Debian GNU/Linux | above, but it is too long to fit branden@debian.org | into this .signature file. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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