Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:19:10 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev |
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On 3/27/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >> > >> And why did the mouse numbers all get rearranged in 2.6.20, e.g. > >> mouse1 became mouse2 for many people? > > > > Input devices are not guaranteed to be stable. > > > > So people with z-axis mice need to redo their X config for each > kernel release when the device numbers change? Or should they > be using some other configuration? > > People using this now have X crashes on kernel upgrade because > event1 became event2: > > Driver "evdev" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" >
I'd recommend matching on "phys" or individual capabilities bits instead of device node. See "man evdev".
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