On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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). Ah, I see. I wonder why they didn't just work that into evdev though.
