Hi Sorry for replying so late...
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:21:14PM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> Hi,
> I found myself trying mouseemu on a kernel without CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT
> set, mouseemu dies with:
>
> open: No such file or directory
>
> stracing mouseemu leads to:
>
> [pid 29880] open("/dev/input/uinput", O_RDWR) = -1 ENODEV (No such
> device)
>
> I think in case of ENODEV a more meaningful message should be printed,
> something like "check if you have uinput available"
Mouseemu is a deamon, like many deamons it prints it's messages to
syslog. A more meaningful message can be found there. You can also use
the -nofork option in which case the message goes to the console.
I will add a patch to the next version to unconditionally send the error
message to stderr.
gaudenz
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