[PD] hid, routing different devices
moritz
erstens at gmx.ch
Mon Apr 16 01:13:00 CEST 2007
Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> moritz hat gesagt: // moritz wrote:
>
>> i'm playing around with a lot of usb-devices (joysticks/gamepads)..
>>
>> my problem is i want to route all this devices, but choosing a device by
>> its hex value or name don't work with my hid. (compiled on Oct 9 2006 on
>> übüntü däppr, i also tried a hid from a recent autobuild..)
>>
>> Because i want to connect the devices ignoring the order of plugging in,
>> the devices are every time on a different /dev/input/*..
>>
>> how can i route the different devices? the [info( -message outputs me a
>> stressful symbol with spaces in the name.
>
> Are you already using udev? It has this nice automatic labelling
> system, where you can access devices by id and by name. For example
> here it looks like this:
>
> $ ls -l /dev/input/by-id/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 14 19:16 usb-6666_0667-event-joystick -> ../event5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 4 11:53 usb-Logitech_USB-PS.2_Optical_Mouse-event-mouse -> ../event4
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 4 11:53 usb-Logitech_USB-PS.2_Optical_Mouse-mouse -> ../mouse0
>
> The device IDs will always stay the same. It is probably possible to use these for [hid].
>
> Ciao
alo
do i understand it right, i can for example the x-joystick allocate
forever on /dev/input/event5 with udev?
thanx
moritz
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