On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:52:51PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> There's no agenda behind this; I merely suspected it being a bad >> interaction with whatever's being used to manage device nodes, since >> from the above, it doesn't appear to be the kernel itself having trouble.
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:04:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > I don't understand you, or maybe you don't understand me. The real > problem is with X, X has one and one only core pointer, which is set to > psaux on most systems since most users have a ps2 mouse. IF the ps2 > device is missing, then X refuses to start. This could maybe be solved > by a psaux->input/mice link or something, maybe. > X being the main app though, we have to care about it. The symlink sounds like a good idea to me. I'm not sure why X is dead set on a given device node, but so be it. Who owns MKDEV? -- wli
