On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If anyone has a setup that he needed input hotplugging for, I'd be very >> interested to hear, because I cannot think of one. > > Hah, thanks Thomas, I didn't want to be the one to say it. My system > has worked fine with "hotplugging" for the past 5 years or so. I > always wondered what sort of crazy esoteric systems needed this stuff > such that editing some confusing XML files was a good tradeoff I'll speak up. I have a Logitech USB mouse that I use on my main machine. I have no other pointing devices, but this mouse does happen to have extra buttons that don't work by default except when configuring evdev to use the *exact* USB device it is assigned to in /dev; I can't use the /dev/mouse thingy or whatever for it. If I unplug this mouse to go use it on my laptop, and then come back to my desktop and plug it in, it fails to work at all because I can't use the /dev/mouse device and the USB device number assignment changes, even if I plug it into the exact same port. So input hotplugging is perfect for me, and I didn't have to tweak a single file to get it to work (other than remove crud from my xorg.conf which is now much more manageable). -Dan
