[arch-general] x hotplugging probs

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> 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.