disappearing mouse support

[Aurelio Bay]

I had the same problem.  kudzu unlinks /dev/mouse.
I added a line to rc.local:
ln -s -dev/input/mice /dev/mouse
It looks working fine (so far).

Hope this will help.
Cheers
			Aurelio


> Didn't actually solve the problem.
> 
> But it appears that a work around. Before I start X, I run gpm-root.
> Then I run X and that seems to do the trick.
> 
> jeb
> 
> On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 03:37, Jeb Bolding wrote:
> > 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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