On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:17:17PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > 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.
Well, I do see a bug, but the right way to fix it is to implement hotplugging for the X server. I have every intention of working on this in the future, but not until after we have the modular packages. If the submitter thinks that this is going to happen within a year then he's kidding himself though. - David Nusinow
