| Summary: | Xorg -configure should check for alternate mouse devices locations | ||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | Olav Sandstå <olav> |
| Component: | Server/General | Assignee: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED MOVED | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 (2006.05) | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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The is a proposal for an improvement to "Xorg -configure" with regards to mouse configuration When running this command it produces a xorg.conf.new file with the following for the mouse: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection The "Device" "/dev/mouse" entry is created even when /dev/mouse does not exists on the machine. The proposal is that Xorg -configure should try if some other likely device locations exists before using this as a fallback. E.g., I would like to see that it check if /dev/input/mice existed and used that instead in the config file if /dev/mouse did not exists.