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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:21:45PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> With 2.6.14 on my testbox, I get this..
> 
> $ ls /dev/input/
> event0  event1  mice  mouse0
> 
> With 2.6.15rc
> 
> $ ls /dev/input/
> mice
> 
> If I can dig out the bugzilla that reported this, I'll followup.
> Something in my head is telling me it had something to do with
> laptop touchpads, but that could be the post-xmas `nog talking.

When I got bitten with this udev breakage a while ago, it wasn't a
matter of /dev/input/event? in the X configuration file, but that the
Synaptics driver directly searches for /dev/input/event?  files to
talk directly to the raw touchpad device driver directly, and fails to
initialize, thus causing the X server initialization to fail.  There
may be other failure scenarios, but this was the one I ran into with
my laptop.

							- Ted
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