consistent keyboard and mice assignment

[Michael P. <mp...@op...>]

Hope this helps Sebastian and others...
After I got fed up with hotplug, I created a simple and reliable way to
assign keyboards and mice consistently.  They can be plugged in anywhere
you want, but will always be in the same order.
You can find this script buried in the tar file I posted at:
http://groovix.com/linuxconsole.html
but here is a direct link to the most important script:
http://groovix.com/reassign_input_devices.groovix
which you can have run at startup. Also, be sure to change your
XF86Config-4 file to use the mice at /dev/input/ordered_mice/mouseX
-- 
Michael Pardee
Open Sense Solutions LLC
1-888-323-1742
http://opensensesolutions.com


>>To: Sebastian Galletto <sga...@ak...>
>>Subject: Re: Linuxconsole-commit digest, Vol 1 #358 - 1 msg
>>Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 09:51:03 +0300
>>Cc: lin...@li...
>> Hi everybody
>>
>> I have a multihead computer running Ubuntu GNU/Linux. It sometimes
>> changes keyboard and mice assignment. I'm trying to configure hotplug,
>> in order to assing physical devices to specific consoles, but I couldn't
>> do it.
>> I created /etc/hotplug/kbd.conf, /etc/hotplug/mouse.conf
>> and /etc/hotplug/event.conf according my configuration. Then I restarted
>> hotplug system, but no changes took effect.
>> I have been looking on input.agent file, and it does not reference
>> kbd.conf nor mouse.conf. I also compared it with the example included on
>> the howto and is completly diferent. I think that I have to merge
>> changes to my hotplug scripts.

>Yep. input.agent is very old.

>Boot time keyboard assignment You can set with command like this,
>for each keyboard:
>echo "usb1:1/input0">/proc/bus/console/00/keyboard

> Did somebody try to merge changes to a debian or ubuntu input.agent
> file?

>Aivils