(Breezy) X.org and /dev/input/mice

Levander levander at mindspring.com
Sat Jul 30 07:38:44 UTC 2005


Stephen R Laniel wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:53:04AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>  
>
>>So, doing
>>sudo mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63
>>fixed it. But I shouldn't have had to do that. Why did
>>/dev/input/mice stop working?
>>    
>>
>
>Well, this is odd: moving the mousedev module from the
>beginning of the /etc/modules file to the end fixed it. Why
>would that be? 
>

Conflicts between mousedev and other modules?  Moving the mousedev 
module to load last eliminates the conflict somehow?  Maybe the mousedev 
module "wins" in the conflict now, having its code take precendence?

-Levander




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