X locks console using /dev/null as core pointer

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Starting X with /dev/null configured as a PS/2 mouse locks the
console.

Killing X from a serial terminal didn't fix the console - not even
numlock was working.

I guess this is really an X bug, but should it lock the console hard,
so that it's not even possible to switch VTs?

John.
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