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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
To: Brandon Stewart <rbrandonstewart@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot swapping USB mouse in X window system
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:48:15 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308172048.15232.arvidjaar@mail.ru> (raw)

> 1) If a mouse is not detected at the start of X windows, that mouse will 
> not be checked for during the operation of X windows.
> 2) If a mouse is detected at the start of X windows, then the device 
> corresponding to that mouse cannot be released until X windows is stopped

Use /dev/input/mice, it multiplexes all mice found and exists even if no 
device is currentrly available.

Under 2.6 I can "hot-plug" serial and PS2 mouse this way and use both at the 
same time.

-andrey

             reply	other threads:[~2003-08-17 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-17 16:48 Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2003-08-17 17:40 ` Hot swapping USB mouse in X window system Brandon Stewart
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2003-08-17 18:17 John Bradford
2003-08-17 16:38 Brandon Stewart

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