found 375460 1:1.0.2-8 retitle 375460 server crash when the device configured as core pointer is a keyboard kthxbye On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 13:34:20 +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:44:45PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > The backtrace looks input related, and indeed, looking at the log file, > > it looks like /dev/input/event1 no longer represents a mouse but a > > keyboard, so the X server ends up running without a core pointer and > > probably chokes on that. > > > > Yes, exactly. event1/2 is switched in the new kernel. The same happened > to me once in the past, but IIRC the xserver printed some reasonable > warning about missing core pointer, so I found that easily. > > I've created a simple udev rule and now have mouse on > /dev/input/psmouse. I should have done it when I started using evdev > interface. Should we consider this a configuration issue? It looks like input-hotplug, or using persistent device names, would prevent this kind of problems. Cheers, Julien
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