On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:07:54AM -0400, Marques Johansson wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 > Followup-For: Bug #169427 > > I stumbled upon this bug on my laptop which has a builtin ps/2 mouse. > After doing an upgrade /dev/psaux went away. This caused X not to load > at the next boot and for whatever reason gdm wouldn't pass control onto > the next rc file. > > X has the configuration allowing for a secondary mouse in > /dev/input/mice. this allows for (2.6) ps2 mice and usb mice to work well > under a default X config. However, the lack of the 'Option > "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"' causes X to not load when it otherwise would > have loaded happily. > > What harm could be done in changing the default debian XF86Config-4 to > include this line? In a worst case, someone with an improper mouse > configuration gets keyboard-only access to X. The problem with this suggestion is that most people don't know how to activate keyboard-only mode, or how to use it once it is activated (I'm an X veteran compared to many folks, and I can't remember which keypad buttons correspond to which mouse bottons, which is the lock, the drag, and so forth). Giving people a graphical environment they can't figure out how to use scarcely seems better than not giving them one at all. -- G. Branden Robinson | I had thought very carefully about Debian GNU/Linux | committing hara-kiri over this, but branden@debian.org | I overslept this morning. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Toshio Yamaguchi
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