From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 18:24:49 +0000 Subject: Re: Udev plus keyboard and mouse (fedora core 5) Message-Id: <20060508182449.GA29456@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel