On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 02:10:52PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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?
dpkg -S /etc/MAKEDEV should reply to this, and well, X is X. I have cross posted the other post to debian-x, let's see what they have to say about this, and maybe reply to that mail for further discussion. Friendly, Sven Luther
