when the ps2 mouse is not plugged in while booting, ps2 keyboard input
will get _disabled_ under X. The same keyboard under VT works fine, only X
acts like dead - tested under xfree 4.2.
This behaveour can be disabled by setting the option:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection
I suggest that this option be enabled in X *by default* and that it can be
*optionally* switched off.
Having to figure out why the keyboard is not working on some boxes under
X, while it is working perfectly well under VT can be *very* difficult. I
spent a day with it. Additionaly the respective option does not to be very
well know as I have been describing my problem and been asking for help
on several IRC channels [1] without people being able to point me in the
right direction.
Please change the default X behaveour to ignore the mouse not being
available and just enable the keyboard by default.
Thanks,
*t
PS: My case is documented in some more depth under:
http://bugs.debian.org/169427
[1] #debian, #ati, #xfree86, #xfree86-devel
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