From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 04:32:42 +0000 Subject: Re: udev - /dev/input/mice problem Message-Id: <20041020043242.GA12364@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <32895.193.231.188.208.1098236930.squirrel@email.rdsor.ro> In-Reply-To: <32895.193.231.188.208.1098236930.squirrel@email.rdsor.ro> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 04:48:50AM +0300, Adrian Dinita wrote: > > I installed udev-038-1 and after a reboot the computer 'died' trying to > get into X. I did a restart in run-level 3 and /var/log/Xorg.0.log said: > Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such file or directory. > ...... > Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices > > I added the line Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "1" (in the ServerFlags > section) in xorg.conf.. and X started with no mouse. > > I entered the directory and /dev/input/ was empty > > udevd was running > > ps aux | grep udevd: > root 250 0.0 0.0 3184 452 ? S > > after a: /sbin/udevstart (/sbin/udev) , (or a : MAKEDEV mouse) it created > the entries and the mouse start working. > > Why doesn't udev create the entries for the mouse at startup? > > My distro is Fedora Core 2 , xorg 6.8.1 , kernel: 2.6.8-1.624 No idea. Everything is working well here with the same setup. Do you have that problem with every reboot? Do you have a USB-mouse? If yes, you may try diconnect/reconnect it and look in /dev if the nodes are deleted/created. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel