Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:07:41 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: linux as a minicomputer ? |
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:49:42PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:13:39PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik mentioned: > > > I'd presumed this was > > > the whole point of the busid spec in the config file. > > No, it's for running one Xserver on multiple displays at once only. > > Sad, ain't it? > > Very sad. Nice to know it's not really the kernel's fault. > > Is it possible to say "Any mice plugged in to this port is > /dev/input/mouse3" etc. so that if someone plugged out your mouse, plugged > in another into a different port, and you plugged yours back in, that they > wouldn't renumberate ?
No, that is not possible. However, on plugging the mouse, /sbin/hotplug will be called with appropriate arguments to allow to take any action needed (symlinking, sending a signal, whatever) to make the mouse keep working. Also a list of existing devices is available under /proc/bus/input/devices for applications to look at and reconfigure in case of a hotplug event.
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