Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On an all-cooker and totally up-to-date box, the usb mouse kept
> disappearing after a reboot. This was whether or not devfsd was loaded.
>
> After searching the list, I saw a post by Hoyt that said he used
> mousedrake to fix this on his. After much trial and error, I placed
>
> /usr/sbin/mousedrake --auto >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> Right after the last 'if' test in /etc/X11/prefdm. This works, but is
> kinda kludgy in the extreme. BTW the redirect is necessary to keep from
> screwing up tty1 on init5.
>
> So, what is it that mousedrake is doing to make the mouse work?
not much. it accesses /dev/psaux and a few other stuff. You can
reproduce it with:
% perl -I/usr/lib/libDrakX -Mdetect_devices -e 'detect_devices::hasMousePS2("psaux")'
It may also tell the X server to change the protocol, but it shouldn't
happen in that case.
also try disabling gpm?
