On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:14:55 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Jacques Montier > <jacques.mont...@numericable.fr> wrote: > > Mike Kazantsev a gentiment tapote: > >> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:47:46 -0400 > >> Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> After installing Xorg-server 1.5.3 & adopting the Evdev approach, > >>> I can unplug + replug my mouse & keyboard without losing usage: > >>> previously, you had to restart X to get them back. I assume > >>> the idea behind the change is to allow hotplugging these devices. > >> > >> Strangely enough, I do it more than ten times a day, and it works > >> perfectly with old-style configuration. > >> Same thing worked for PS/2 keyboard/mouse, unlike M$-OS. > > > > I unmerged xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse and everything works > > nice ! > > For fun i plugged a second usb mouse, and then i got one mouse for left > > hand and another one for the right hand :-) . > > For some years now I've been connecting my keyboard, video and mouse > through an Avocent KVM switch because I have multiple machines and I > only use one at a time. It has arrangements for hotplug recovery so I > don't have to reboot or restart anything. But I've always wondered > why that was an issue -- a major pain whenever the thing gets > unplugged. Apparently it's now fixed for Linux at least. I'm gland. I'm probably being really thick, sorry about that, but I still don't get the "issue" you're talking about: I plugged in keyboards and mouses into X and they just worked. No evdev selected or hal installed. Right now I'm behind a laptop with mouse plugged in - it works. Touchpad works as well. If I unplug the mouse and plug it (or any other) again I don't need to restart anything, and it's been this way as long as I can remember. That's pretty much what I've tried to say in my quoted post, too. Just for fun of it, I just plugged two USB keyboards and they both just work... along with built-in one. What am I doing wrong? What issues are you talking about!? :) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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