On Sunday 08 October 2006 17:10, Andrew Frink wrote: > Harm Geerts wrote: > > On Sunday 08 October 2006 13:20, Peter Gille wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I have installed beryl and Xorg 7.1 as described in this guide: > >> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_nVidia_GL_Desktop_Effects > >> It is working great, except for the fact that my USB mouse, a Logitech > >> MX-518, is no longer working. It works in console-mode using gpm so I > >> assume there must be something wrong in either my xorg.conf or in the > >> evdev driver. > >> Attached are my xorg.conf and my Xorg.0.log. > >> /dev/input/logitech is a device-node created by my custom udev-rules. > >> If anyone have any suggestions for solving this problem they would be > >> greatly appreciated. > > > > evdev driver has changed a bit and is now configured a different way. > > It's no longer possible to use evdev with special nodes (like yours) > > You have to use the original device (event*) or use the name. > > > > $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices > > I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1532 Product=0002 Version=0100 > > N: Name="Razer Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse" > > P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.0-1/input0 > > S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0 > > H: Handlers=mouse0 event0 > > B: EV=7 > > B: KEY=7f0000 0 0 0 0 > > B: REL=103 > > > > According to the output I can use the event0 device to configure my mouse > > or I can use the name. You can configure evdev with the name like this. > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Razer Diamondback" > > Driver "evdev" > > Option "Name" "Razer Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse" > > EndSection > > Will evdev handle unicode charecters? i have a mouse that has the > copyright symbol in it's name.
No idea about that, just have to try, but you can always fall back to the event* device node. Most important things are: * don't use a custom udev node * use either "Name" or "Device", not both * if you use name, copy the name exactly as shown in /proc -- [email protected] mailing list
