X loses wireless input devices

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:27:58PM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> 
> On Mon, June 11, 2012 7:56 pm, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> >
> > 1.12 has the ID_SEAT support, so if you set that property through udev the
> > server only adds the matching ones. You'd have to then start the X server
> > with -seat, see the commit message to
> > 159b03e13760920274b573a2bccdbf6a79f059e7 for some detail.
> >
> 
> I have 1.12 installed, and -seat NNN seems to be working; at least when I
> use -seat no devices are detected.  I'm having 2 issues:
> 
> 1.  I'm not familiar with the xorg git repository, and I can't figure out
> how/where to find the commit message you refer to.
> 
> 2.  I can't find any examples of setting properties or tags in udev. 
> Ubuntu does not use systemd, so I'm stuck doing this manually.
> 
> Here's one attempt; the symlink is created but X doesn't see any evdev
> devices.
> 
> SUBSYSTEM=="input", ACTION=="add",
> ATTRS{phys}=="usb-0000:00:02.1-2.4.4.4/input0",
> SYMLINK+="input/seat/jason/mouse"
> SUBSYSTEM=="input", ACTION=="add",
> ATTRS{phys}=="usb-0000:00:02.1-2.4.4.4/input0", ID_SEAT+="jason"
> SUBSYSTEM=="input", ACTION=="add",
> ATTRS{phys}=="usb-0000:00:02.1-2.4.4.4/input0", TAG+="seat"
> 
> Is there an example I can go by?

not that I know of, unfortunately. Did you check whether the property is set
in udevadm info?  And which device it is set on? we only check for ID_SEAT
on the device itself and I suspect that the above rules assign it to the 
parent device instead.

Cheers,
  Peter