Bug#255744: xfree86-common: Mouse not found causes gdm to fail -- this *is* annoying
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:17:17PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > I just want to stress the importance of this bug. It is more than a year
> > old and it still has not been fixed!
> >
> > Take the following scenario: a connector is accidentally removed, or the
> > user removed the mouse for whatever reason. Suddenly, the system no longer
> > starts X! Even though you _can_ work with X without a mouse. I am an
> > experienced user and still I had to spend some time to understand what and
> > why is happening (if you unplug the mouse after the system created the
> > mouse device, everything is fine).
>
> Are you using /dev/input/mice for the mouse? With that, it shouldn't
> matter whether any mice are actually connected. If the device node
> doesn't exist, it's probably a matter of making sure that the backing
> kernel module (mousedev IIRC) is loaded.
>
> Another possibility is running the X server with -allowMouseOpenFail.
>
> I don't really see an X server bug here but rather a system
> administration issue.
Well, I do see a bug, but the right way to fix it is to implement
hotplugging for the X server. I have every intention of working on this in
the future, but not until after we have the modular packages. If the
submitter thinks that this is going to happen within a year then he's
kidding himself though.
- David Nusinow
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