Sorry, ignore this post - use the 'allowmouseopenfail' in the 'serverflags' 
section, like Craig suggested :0)


-Oli



>===== Original Message From Oli Comber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>I think you might have a few problems running X without a mouse!
>
>If you really want to do this, you could probably do something like:
>
>
>1. Run GPM with "gpm -m /dev/null -R raw"
>-GPM will become a repeater, creating a mouse device "/dev/gpmdata", although
>not converting the data (='raw')
>
>2. Specify /dev/gpmdata in your XF86Config-4
>
>
>Can somebody confirm if this would work? Would it be necessary to run GPM, or
>would X be as happy with /dev/null as the mouse?
>
>
>-Oli
>
>
>
>
>>===== Original Message From xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>>Hi,
>>
>>I don't know which version I used but it should be the same method for
>>many version (I tried to know with xfree86 -version but doesn't work, I
>>tried to watch the file sf86config but I didn't find the version). But
>>anyway.
>>
>>I made a config but when I run it, it's written :"Fatal server error:
>>Cannot open mouse (No such file or directory)". To say the truth, I know
>>there isn't mouse and there will never be a mouse. I tried to make a
>>config without no mouse with xconfigurator and sf86setup but there isn't
>>any options 'no mouse'.
>>
>>So how to config xfree for no mouse?
>>
>>Xavier
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