evdev driver in Xorg7.1 -- just hangs

Kurt B Cox kurtbcox at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 21:25:29 PDT 2006


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Michael Frey wrote:
> How is evdev supposed to work?  I can not get any of my evdev devices to
> work using the evdev Xorg driver.
> 
> 
> My X server just hangs with the message:
> 
> evdev brain: Rescanning devices (1).
> 
> 
> Here is my config for a mouse in my xorg.conf
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier "Mouse0"
>     Driver "evdev"
>     Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Any ideas would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael

 Check the man pages. They have a few fine examples. The mouse example
works for my usb mouse right off the bat. The keyboard example had some
keys mapped incorrectly so I switched back to kbd.
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