On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Lance Duivenbode wrote:
Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Lance Duivenbode wrote:
Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Lance Duivenbode wrote:
I work for uses Linux (a custom version) running the 2.4.24 kernel and
we've just upgraded to XFree86 4.5.0. Previously, when X was started
without a mouse it would exit back to the shell complaining that it
couldn't find the core pointer. However, since we've upgraded to 4.5.0
this behaviour no longer occurs - even with the "AllowMouseOpenFail"
server flag explicitly set to "false".
Given the fact that my company remotely manages internet kiosks, we
want to be able to detect if a mouse is not connected since this
usually indicates faulty hardware. Is it still possible to prevent X
from starting if there is no mouse attached or has this option been
removed? I would appreciate any help since I've not been able to find
anything in the docs or via searching the internet.
This is likely a consequence of auto-configuration. I'll have a look.
You wouldn't happen to have a mouse-less log, would you?
Thanks for you reply. I've included a mouse-less log as requested as well
as the configuration file.
You say you upgraded to 4.5.0. From what version?
Sorry about the delay but it took some time to find out (I'm pretty new to
the company). It appears we were running version 4.2 before.
OK. Does it make any difference to add O_EXCL back into
xf86OpenSerial()'s open(2) call on line 143 of
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/shared/posix_tty.c?
Anything more on this?
Marc.
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