On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:15:27AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > In 2.5, /sbin/hotplug is called whenever a new device > > > appears/disappears. It's a script. Add whatever you need to notify X > > > about the device to that script. You can even connect to X via the X11 > > > protocol and use some extension to tell it about the new mouse. > > > > In recent 2.4.x as well, > > No. You get /sbin/hotplug called for USB devices, which is not exactly > what you need. 2.5 will call it for Input devices as well. This is > different, because you get all the info you get from the ioctls passed > in shell variables. Also it works in an unified way for all input > devices, be them USB or PS/2 or ADB or whatever ... > > (For USB devices you get both the USB connect and Input connect)
Ahh, argh!
Annoying, but not /that/ much worse I suppose.
The hotplug side is still the simple one.
Zephaniah E. Hull.
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