Re: pbbuttonsd not loading every dev event

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:34:27 -0500
Kristian Benoit <kb...@op...> wrote:

> I had this problem a few times, pbbuttonsd does not recognize the eject
> button. Plus the appletouch (absolute coordinate) events does not reset
> the sleep timeout so I must press a key.
> 
> Some devices have the same vendor/product id. For example, the keyboard
> (/dev/input/event3) has the same vendor/product as the eject key
> (/dev/input/event4).
> 
> The appletouch also have the same ids as another event device too with a
> lower number. So those where ignored by pbbuttonsd.

Oh no. :-( You can't rely on nothing nowadays. Why do we define
standards when nobody follows them anyway? :-/
 
> I quikfixed my version, but I still have a strange behavior:

Could you please tell me how you did this? We need a good workaround
for this quirk.

 Thanks and Best Regards
   Matthias