Second call for X testers.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:14:57PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 02:31:54PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> http://home.fooishbar.org/~daniels/canonical/dummy-mouse.diff

After discussing and experimenting with this, it seems that all we need to
do is load the 'mousedev' input module.  This causes /dev/input/mice to
appear, and reads will block until an actual mouse device is connected.

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 - mdz