On 2011-02-25 22:00+0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote:
tag 588566 moreinfo
thanks
Hi Alan,
Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> (09/07/2010):
I haven't actually used it, but the package comes with a README,
which says:
inputattach for Debian
----------------------
This package does not include an initscript to initialize your
devices automatically; it isn't possible to adequately control
inputattach as would be required for an initscript.
To automatically attach a serial device to the input layer, the
recommended approach is simply to add the appropriate lines to
/etc/rc.local, or to a local udev rules file. For example, to
configure a Mouse Systems mouse on the first serial port:
* in /etc/rc.local
inputattach --daemon -msc /dev/ttyS0
* or in /etc/udev/010_local.rules
ACTION="add", KERNEL=="ttyS0", RUN+="inputattach --daemon -msc %p"
I'd be interested to know how that works out (I guess you'd use -mman
instead of -msc to reproduce the behaviour from your xorg.conf).
any news about that?
Hi Cyril:
Ultimately, I decided to stick with the legacy approach since that was
working (aside from the dependency issue described by this bug
report), and I didn't want to disrupt a hard-working production system
with a bunch of mouse configuration experiments for special new
software (inputattach) that is specialized for serial devices and
unlikely to be as well tested as the legacy approach.
I do plan to give inputattach a quick try once I move from Debian
Squeeze to Debian testing (probably in 6-12 months after testing has
had a chance to settle down for a while), but if the inputattach
method doesn't work, I will still need to fallback to the legacy
approach at that point.
Of course, this discussion is all just a side issue to my original
bug report on the missing dependency issue for the legacy approach.
Please fix that! Also, please remove the moreinfo tag.
Alan
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