On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:12:20PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > In the MEANTIME, I decided that if Melissa can live with one or the other > input device, I may as well set that up. Unfortunately, XF86Config-4 was > set up to use "/dev/psaux" (the built-in mouse, using "mousedev" and "psmouse" > kernel drivers) as a "CorePointer", so if we disable "mousedev" and try to > restart X, it will refuse. "No mouse? No X for you!" > > Well, I'm sneaky, so I created a NEW device in X's config, called > "Dummy Mouse". It's almost identical to the "/dev/psaux" one, except > it simply points to "/dev/null". Man, I love Un*x! > > Set up "Dummy Mouse" as a 'CorePointer', and give the PS2 mouse an > "AlwaysCore" option in my ServerLayout (instead of setting up as > 'CorePointer'), and voila! I can load (modprobe) and unload (rmmod) the > "mousedev" kernel module as needed, and X will restart happily!
Nice. I do like that hack. However, enabling the option: Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" in the InputDevice section for your ps2 mouse should have worked. -t _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
