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#2 Logitech Freedom 2.4 coreless, keeps changing device name

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Stephen Kitt
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2011-04-04
2006-12-14
Duncan Webb
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Logitech Freedom 2.4 coreless, keeps changing device name. On boot the device /dev/input/js0 is created and jstest works just fine. After a while the device has changed to /dev/input/js1 and jstest still works fine.

The problem is that the device is already opened by an application so the program stops responding to the joystick. Other apps look for /dev/input/js0 as the first joystick, eg SDLJoytest.

Maybe I've missed something to configure, like a udev rule.

Hope you can help

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  • Stephen Kitt

    Stephen Kitt - 2011-04-04

    Hi Duncan,

    Do you still have this issue? It sounds like the device is disconnecting and reconnecting for whatever reason; "dmesg" will probably show USB disconnections and reconnections. If that is the case a udev rule would help maintain the device name but I'm not sure it would help programs which are already using the device.

    Regards,

    Stephen

     

  • Stephen Kitt

    Stephen Kitt - 2011-04-04
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