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>Chapter 5. More on configuring input devices</TD
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>5.3. Using XFree with event interface support</H1
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>This will allow you:</P
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>if you have input devices with different names, to use them with the same Xserver/screen wherever you plug or re-plug them. </P
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>if you have input devices with the same names, to use them with the same Xserver/screen according to the USB port where you plug or re-plug them. </P
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> the ability to use wild cards such as <SPAN
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>Currently hot-plugging doesn't seems to work properly. I have reports that it works when using the <SPAN
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> option, but my primary purpose was to get it working with <SPAN
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>"Why "Dev Phys"?"</SPAN
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> - because if one wants to setup a single system for 4,5 or more users it would be easier to get 4,5 or more pieces of the same keyboard/ mouse then to find the same number keyboards or mice but from different manufacturer or with different names, and i find configuring XFree for such number users is simpler when <SPAN
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>This section is somewhat abandoned and is not tested under Ruby-2.6 as it didn't work reliably for me.</P
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>For this to work you will have to use XFree with the patches for event interface support, developed by Zephaniah Hull. You can find them at the following url: <A
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>http://people.debian.org/~warp/evdev/</A
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>To build from source you will need the following patches :</P
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>029_lnx_evdev.diff</TT
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>030_lnx_evdev_mouse.diff</TT
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> : The mouse side of the patch.</P
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>The binaries for Debian include these patches.</P
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>For hot-plugging you will also need the <TT
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>/etc/hotplug/input.agent</TT
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> , which you can find under the above address and in Appendix Scripts </P
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>Then you have to configure XFree to use the event devices.</P
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>The configuration section for a mouse should look something like this:</P
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>Section "InputDevice"
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Identifier "Mouse1"
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Driver "mouse"
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Option "Protocol" "evdev"
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Option "Dev Name" "A4Tech USB Optical Mouse"
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Option "Dev Phys" "usb-*/input0"
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Option "Buttons" "9"
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Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7 8 9"
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>The configuration section for a keyboard should look something like this:</P
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>Section "InputDevice"
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Identifier "Keyboard1"
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Driver "kbd"
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Option "Protocol" "evdev"
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Option "Dev Name" "SILITEK USB Keyboard"
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Option "Dev Phys" "usb-*/input0"
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Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"
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Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
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Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
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Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak"
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EndSection</PRE
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> work, you MUST have at least one of the two, if you have both then the device must match on both, a non-existent entry is the same as one consisting of <SPAN
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