Bug#233933: mouse delays on start

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 00:51, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:03:30AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > I worked around this by just pointing Device at a file that doesn't exist.
> > 
> > Another technique would be to remove all InputDevice sections that use
> > the "mouse" driver from your XF86Config-4 file, and adjust xinitrc and
> > your display manager configs to start the XFree86 X server with the
> > "-allowMouseOpenFail" option.  See XFree86(1x).
> 
> Trying that, I got:
> 
> dev:~# X -allowMouseOpenFail
> Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> 	Undefined InputDevice "Configured Mouse" referenced by ServerLayout "Default Layout".
> (EE) Problem parsing the config file
> (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
> 
> Commenting that out:
> (EE) No core pointer device specified
> (EE) Unable to determine the screen layout
> (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()

Something else you can try is to use the "void" driver for the core
pointer.


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