Bug#169427: xserver-xfree86: not enabling "AllowMouseOpenFail" can cause X fail to have a keyboard if _mouse_ is not plugged in
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 13:07 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
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> So the latter seems to imply that X automatically falls back (maybe
> another method is used?) on the kernel input handling if there's no useful
> mouse event source.
>
> And the 2.6. kernel seems to be handling the situation where the psaux
> mouse is not plugged in just fine.
>
> I have not tried the recent 2.4 kernels.
Could well be different; /dev/psaux is just an alias of /dev/input/mice
with 2.6 kernels.
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