[ltp] Strange problem with xorg, trackpoint and udev rules

Andreas Stemmer linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:40:21 +0200


Mark T.B. Carroll wrote:
> FWIW this works for me,
> 
> KERNEL=="mouse[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEM=="input", SYSFS{name}=="*Synaptics TouchPad*", SYMLINK+="input/touchpad"
> KERNEL=="mouse[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEM=="input", SYSFS{name}=="*IBM TrackPoint*", SYMLINK+="input/trackpoint"
> KERNEL=="mouse[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEM=="input", SYSFS{name}=="*Kensington Expert Mouse*", SYMLINK+="input/trackball"
> 
> Maybe I'm meant to be using the event stuff like you, though. (-:

Thank you, my udev rules were correct. The event stuff was the problem
since the evdev driver wasn't happy as long as the device was named like
/dev/input/event*. But now everything works without udev rules.

Andreas