Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

[Matt Keenan]

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 3/27/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> 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".
I wrote a few udev rules to create specific /dev nodes for X with evedv 
(I run with multiple X users / screens / keyboards / mice on one 
machine).  I can forward you the udev rules and helper scripts if you 
want.  This means that you can hardcode the /dev nodes in your xorg.conf 
file and udev will make sure they don't move on you.  I wrote this up in 
the early days of evdev development before the phys stuff was there.

Matt
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