[svlug] start usb mouse after X has started?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Hi Matt, your linux is working like it should. Your system has "hotplug" 
working so that hotplug looks at each USB port, reads what the device on 
the USB port is, and then orders the proper kernel modules to be loaded. 

Alas hotplug doesn't work after bootup well at all. So when you plug in 
your mouse after booting, it doesn't load the proper kernel modules and 
fails to work.

It's amazing that hotplug works at all!



On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 matt at vazor.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a usb mouse that works in my laptop if it's plugged in when X starts, otherwise I get:
> 
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
>         No such file or directory.
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
>         No such file or directory.
> (WW) Mouse2: cannot open input device
> 
> So when I plug in the mouse, I can cat /dev/input/mice and see that the mouse
> is sending events, but how do I get X to use the mouse without restarting it?
> 
> thx
> 
> m
> 
> 
> 

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