From: Brandon Stewart <rbrandonstewart@yahoo.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot swapping USB mouse in X window system
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:40:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F3FBDF9.5020007@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308172048.15232.arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Ok, that works. I knew about /dev/input/mice, but I didn't use it
because one mouse was PS/2 and the other was IMPS/2. But it appears to
figure things out on it's own. Thanks.
-Brandon
Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>>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
>
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2003-08-17 16:48 Hot swapping USB mouse in X window system Andrey Borzenkov
2003-08-17 17:40 ` Brandon Stewart [this message]
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2003-08-17 18:17 John Bradford
2003-08-17 16:38 Brandon Stewart
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