From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Udev plus keyboard and mouse (fedora core 5)
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 18:24:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060508182449.GA29456@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <web-20955891@cgp8.sentechsa.net>
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 06:03:36PM +0200, Nkwebi Peace wrote:
>
> Hello everyone.. I need help with identifying device files
> for my keyboard and mouse..I am trying to write a c program
> to retrieve access times for my keyboard and mouse and
> wanted to do it using the stat() system call which require
> the file name for each devive file...If they is a better
> way to do it please help with that..The reason I am asking
> is because the /dev drive seems to be populated with many
> ttyXXX files and I can't identify which is which..
Why do you care about the tty files for keyboards?
> The /dev/input directory also has many files and I can't seem to
> locate the correct one..
One of them points back to your keyboard, if you have the event driver
loaded. Look in /sys/class/input/ to try to figure it out.
> I am running fedora core 5, which I understand uses udev for handling
> device files and their naming..
>
> The other question I wanted to ask is whether the dynamic
> naming of device files also applies to the keyboard and
> mouse, and can one handle that in a program if device file
> names are not kept static using the udev rules..
You can have persistant names for input devices, as I think Debian has
done that. Not sure if Fedora has or not, but if not, a few simple rule
additions would do it for you.
good luck,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-08 16:03 Udev plus keyboard and mouse (fedora core 5) Nkwebi Peace
2006-05-08 18:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-05-09 6:53 ` Nkwebi Peace
2006-05-09 16:50 ` Darren Salt
2006-05-09 20:14 ` Greg KH
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