Subject: Re: Oh no! [was Re: two button mouse]
From: Patrick Smith (patsmith@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Nov 10 2001 - 14:28:22 MST
Mark Brethen wrote:
>
> On Saturday 10 November 2001 03:31, Patrick Smith wrote:
> > > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Mark Brethen wrote:
> > > > Oh no! Everytime I reboot linux it recreates the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> > > > file and removes the three button emulation. Why is it doing that?
> >
> > I imagine it's being done by this bit in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
> >
> > if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/Xautoconfig4 ]; then
> > OFFB=`cat /proc/fb |grep -i 'offb'`
> > if [ ! -z "$OFFB" ]; then
> > action "Configuring X11: " /usr/X11R6/bin/Xautoconfig4
> > fi
> > fi
> >
> > Try commenting that out.
>
> Yes, that prevents Xautoconfig4 from writing a new config, but what happens a
> year from now if I change mice?
Then you edit XF86Config-4 accordingly. Or maybe just run Xautoconfig4
by hand. What's the problem?
-- patsmith@pobox.com
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