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egfr

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Registered: 2011-10-27

Posts: 2

[solved] udev-174 breaks Xorg/evdev hotplugging

It looks like the upgrade to udev-174 "broke" evdev and Xorg on my laptop and X now fails to detect hotplugged usb devices such as my USB mouse.
Downgrading to udev-173 fixes this. Does anybody have any pointers on how to remedy this?

EDIT:

I should add that the kernel properly detects the device and it is available at /dev/input/mouse0. X just never realises that it exists so there must be some mis-communication between udev and evdev.

Last edited by egfr (2011-10-27 15:52:06)

egfr

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Registered: 2011-10-27

Posts: 2

Re: [solved] udev-174 breaks Xorg/evdev hotplugging

Sorry for being stupid. Restarting udevd a la

killall -9 udevd
/sbin/udevd --daemon

fixed the problem.

Last edited by egfr (2011-10-27 15:54:12)