On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:03:30AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I worked around this by just pointing Device at a file that doesn't exist. > > Another technique would be to remove all InputDevice sections that use > the "mouse" driver from your XF86Config-4 file, and adjust xinitrc and > your display manager configs to start the XFree86 X server with the > "-allowMouseOpenFail" option. See XFree86(1x).
Trying that, I got: dev:~# X -allowMouseOpenFail Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Undefined InputDevice "Configured Mouse" referenced by ServerLayout "Default Layout". (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Commenting that out: (EE) No core pointer device specified (EE) Unable to determine the screen layout (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() -- Glenn Maynard