On 2011-02-25 22:00+0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote:
tag 588566 moreinfo thanks Hi Alan, Julien Cristau <jcristau@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 __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________