On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:51:58PM -0400, 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() Your XF86Config-4 is horked. Let's have a look at it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Why should I allow that same God Debian GNU/Linux | to tell me how to raise my kids, branden@debian.org | who had to drown His own? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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