From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephane Chauveau Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 14:07:52 +0000 Subject: hotplug, input and XFree86 Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi, is there a project to handle hotpluging of X11 input devices? For example, I have a Wacom USB tablet. Hotplug works well except that the input subsystem is not yet integrated so I have to guess which input device number is use by the tablet. Even with a proper input subsystem, the X server would have to be stopped and restarted when a new device is plugged in :-( A first approach could be to change XFree86 but I have the feeling that I could take months or years. So I propose to develop an 'input' daemon responsible of connecting hot-plugable devices to custom devices. When the daemon is started, it creates a virtual device for each physical device that may be plugged in the system. _______________________________________________ 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