Re: X disables ps2 keyboard if ps2 mouse not plugged in

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Stefan Obenauer wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:03:24PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote:
> > OK, I'll try again:
> >
> > Why does X disable the ps2 keyboard when there's no ps2 mouse?
>
> [..] if you are using a journaling filesystem [...] the file system
> check takes only a few seconds.

Sure, but isn't it mindboggling that you have to *powercycle* your machine
just because you forgot to plug in the mouse or because the ps2 connector
is shaky? Does remind me of: "Your mouse has moved. Windows NT [1] must be
restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now?"
*t

[1] In this case Linux.

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