Brad Hards wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 06:35, Danny Rathjens wrote:
>
>>Is it safe to assume that the order of the event devices is the same as
>>the mouse dev entries?
>
> <snip>
>
>>I am figuring out which event device is which by using the EVIOCGNAME
>>ioctl but
>>usbmouse has no corresponding ioctl.
>
> Why _on_earth_ are you using usbmouse? Do you mean mousedev?
In the part of my post you snipped I said I was using /dev/input/mouseN
successfully which are indeed the mousedev devices. Sorry for the
confusion.
> If you use the input later, the order will be fairly consistent.
I was hoping for more than 'fairly consistent'. Does this mean that
there is
no way to figure out which physical device the mousedev devices are
connected to?
I guess I could go the dmesg route, modifying mousedev.c to report this.
> Wouldn't it
> just be easier to just use the event interface though? Then you
*know* that
> you have the right device. And you'll get at least as much data.
X does not have support for mice to use the event interface.
(Although thanks to your pointing me at linux-console, I now know that
someone
is working on it, ;)
Thanks for your time.
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