Xorg -configure should check for alternate mouse devices locations
Submitted by Olav Sandstå
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
The is a proposal for an improvement to "Xorg -configure" with regards to mouse configuration
When running this command it produces a xorg.conf.new file with the following for the mouse:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection
The "Device" "/dev/mouse" entry is created even when /dev/mouse does not exists on the machine. The proposal is that Xorg -configure should try if some other likely device locations exists before using this as a fallback. E.g., I would like to see that it check if /dev/input/mice existed and used that instead in the config file if /dev/mouse did not exists.
Version: 7.1 (2006.05)