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Bug#366514: Automatic upgrade from Xfree86 needs to fix mouse



On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:55:03PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> I tried to upgrade from Xserver-xfree86 to xserver-xorg.  The
> XF86Config-4 file had the mouse device as /dev/input/mice.  The
> rewritten xorg.conf file had /dev/mouse, which doesn't exist on my
> system.   It looks as though the info in XF86Config-4 is not consulted
> for the upgrade.

I assume what happened is that you selected /dev/mouse in the Debconf
prompts for xserver-xfree86 when you first set it up, then later
modified XF86Config-4 by hand to use /dev/input/mice.  In this case, the
Debconf answers were migrated, but the changes to XF86Config-4 not.

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