disappearing mouse support

[Jeb Bolding]

Cool...I was doing that manually to much grief.

Works great for me.

jeb
On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 12:45 AM, Aurelio Bay wrote:

>
> 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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