Bug 10007 - Xorg -configure should check for alternate mouse devices locations
Summary: Xorg -configure should check for alternate mouse devices locations
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Server/General (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1 (2006.05)
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2007-02-17 06:00 UTC by Olav Sandstå
Modified: 2018-12-13 22:17 UTC (History)
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Description Olav Sandstå 2007-02-17 06:00:01 UTC
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.
Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:36:27 UTC
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 2 Chris Wilson 2017-08-25 11:14:44 UTC
*** Bug 102405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Martin Peres 2017-08-25 11:19:55 UTC
Chris forgot a couple of 0s in the bug ID. Sorry for the noise!
Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2018-12-13 22:17:47 UTC
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