mouse problems

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sat Sep 17 13:08:05 CDT 2005


On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 03:45:19PM +0200, Jens Askengren wrote:
> Hello
> 
> > > After a fresh boot, /dev/input/mouse0 doesn't exist either. Only
> > > /dev/input/mouse1 exists and represents the touchpad X refuses to start
> > > with "failed to initialize core devices". Only after restarting hotplugd
> > > (sudo /etc/init.d/hotplug restart) /dev/input/mouse0 exists and X starts
> > > fine again.
> 
> I to have experienced this problem. My guess is that hotplug does not
> generate synthetic plug event for already plugged devices on startup
> as it used to do.

It does; there is something more subtle happening here.

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12915

-- 
 - mdz



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