On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:45 +0200, January Weiner wrote: > Package: xfree86-common > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 > Followup-For: Bug #255744 > > > I just want to stress the importance of this bug. It is more than a year > old and it still has not been fixed! > > Take the following scenario: a connector is accidentally removed, or the > user removed the mouse for whatever reason. Suddenly, the system no longer > starts X! Even though you _can_ work with X without a mouse. I am an > experienced user and still I had to spend some time to understand what and > why is happening (if you unplug the mouse after the system created the > mouse device, everything is fine).
Are you using /dev/input/mice for the mouse? With that, it shouldn't matter whether any mice are actually connected. If the device node doesn't exist, it's probably a matter of making sure that the backing kernel module (mousedev IIRC) is loaded. Another possibility is running the X server with -allowMouseOpenFail. I don't really see an X server bug here but rather a system administration issue. HTH, -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
