Second call for X testers.

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:10:47AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> No questions. X didn't start because I did not have a mouse plugged in (and
> thus, udev did not create /dev/input/mice). Would it be possible to allow X
> to start without /dev/input/mice?
> 
>   (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>   (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
>           No such file or directory.
>   (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
>   (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
>   (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
>   (WW) No core pointer registered
>   No core pointer

The canonical answer to this is no - I could give you AllowMouseOpenFail
as the default, but then you plug a mouse in ... and nothing happens,
because you told X to ignore the fact that device opening would fail,
and so it, er, did.

Giving X hotplug input support isn't a bounty proposition, it's a 'give
me a few months in a cave' proposition; the easiest way would really be
to have udev/the kernel always have a dummy mouse around.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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