evdev devices in xorg.conf
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Tue May 3 22:54:23 PDT 2011
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 17:30:06 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> I'm setting up 3 seat multiseat (I use it in my company) but getting
> things embedded down on 1 seat, then I will add the other two.
> I took "Device" setting out, and tried to use "Phys" instead, as I
> wondered if /dev/input/event3 would remain event 3 if evdev was
> wavering for some reason.
No, you can't rely on these remaining stable. You might want to use the
/dev/input/by-path/ symlinks instead, which (I think) won't change
randomly. And either disable AutoAddDevices or set the GrabDevice
option to avoid duplicated events.
Cheers,
Julien
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