Missing Mouse causes SDL not to initialise

Hi

Can anyone help with what is possibly a simple problem.

On a Windows 2000 target, if there is no mouse plugged into the machine, SDL
will not initialise (it fails with a directinput error).

Is it possible for SDL to not require a mouse.

Thanks.

Steve Lupton**********************************************************************
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