disappearing mouse support

[Jeb Bolding]

Yup, that's what mine looks like too. But when I reboot without the
mouse plugged in, GPM fails at reboot and I get no X.

Maybe I should just leave the PB on forever........I can unplug the
mouse once it's started up.

jeb

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 21:29, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> On Fri September 13 2002 04:56, Jeb Bolding wrote:
> > I installed YDL 2.3 on my PB 667 (a month old). I took it to work and
> > plugged in my USB mouse and worked during the day. I came home at night
> > and X will no longer start up. I get the message that /dev/mouse wasn't
> > a known serial device (I just had the trackpad).
> >
> > I walked downstairs to my iMac and plugged in that USB mouse and X
> > worked.
> >
> > When I installed YDL I didn't have a USB mouse plugged in, just the
> > trackpad.
> >
> > I don't particularly want to carry a mouse with me everywhere, does
> > anyone have a suggestion about how I can fix this to be more dynamic?
> 
> I'm on a PowerBook G4/667 (10/2001) and have this:
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> and this:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier  "Mouse0"
>     Driver      "mouse"
>     Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>     Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>     Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> EndSection
> 
> in my XF86Config-4 file
> 
> and /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/input/mice, which looks like:
> crw-------    1 root     root      13,  63 Mar 10  2002 mice
> 
> This way, the trackpad and the USB mouse work at the same time and the machine 
> works with the USB mouse unplugged as well.
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