Re: xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/wsmouse

As released, the XFree86 server in OpenBSD 3.2 opens /dev/ files as
appropriate for the arch it is running on when you switch back to
X from console, and closes the devices when switching from X to
console.

We are working on making this not so clumbsy in current, but there was
not time before release to make it less so.
-- 
Todd Fries .. [email protected]

(last updated $ToddFries: signature.p,v 1.2 2002/03/19 15:10:18 todd Exp $)

Penned by Gregory Steuck on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:05:50PM -0700, we have:
| >>>>> "Todd" == Todd T Fries <[email protected]> writes:
| 
|     Todd> Specifically, because the X server now drops priveledges to
|     Todd> user _x11 after starting, switching to console while X is
|     Todd> running, logging in (which chowns the files X needs to be user
|     Todd> _x11 to the user logging in) then trying to switch back will
|     Todd> not work successfully.
| 
| This is strange. Does X server reopen some files as it runs? Is it not
| possible for it to pre-open all file on start up? (not knowing anything
| about X server internals it's so easy to fantasize :-)
| 
|     Todd> Please do a full install instead of an upgrade if you don't
|     Todd> want to spend time figuring out what other things are 'not
|     Todd> quite right'.
| 
| Surprisingly enough, once I changed _x11 uid to 35 and chowned
| /var/db/xdm to _x11, xdm started working, which was all I cared about.
| 
| Thanks
| Greg