You really don't want to know, but I was disabling/enabling synaptics repeatedly during login on my new machine. I noticed that the X server was slowing growing more and more fds attached to the device, then I noticed that the device wasn't actually working, even if I did xinput --enable.
The first patch closes the device when the DeviceOnHook fails: [PATCH 1/2] Close device if DeviceOnHook fails The second patch fixes the evdev DeviceOnHook to not fail by making sure libevdev has the new fd before we try to grab the device: [PATCH 2/2] When re-opening evdev, set the fd before trying to grab -keith _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
