Bug#169427: [Xpert]without "AllowMouseOpenFail" causes X _keyboard_ to fail silently if _mouse_ is not plugged in

On Fre, 2002-12-20 at 14:54, Frank Murphy wrote:
> 
> >From what I understand, the AllowMouseOpenFail will allow me to keep the PS/2
> mouse configured without having one plugged in. I plan to add that to my
> XFConfig, but it seems that allowing a mouse to fail open should be the
> default (especially a second mouse).

That option only has an impact if the server fails to start without it.

See a recent Xpert post by Egbert Eich for a possible explanation of the
problem.


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