On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Daniel Ritz wrote: > there was a report from a user who saw a series of disconnect/connect > until X11 was started up. and of course most of the time the device > was disconnected when X11 fired up. the workaround he found was doing > cat /dev/input/event3 > /dev/null 2>&1 & > immediately after the touchscreen was detected. this prevented the device > from doing those disconnect/connects...ie. as soon as some process has the > event interface open the touchscreen is stable.
I'm curious about this; there have been similar reports about a USB mouse that would repeatedly disconnect/connect itself for no apparent reason. I don't know if holding the event file open would make any difference, and in any case I don't see how it possibly could. Do you have an idea about what's really going on? Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
