Scanner Frustration

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Tue May 4 19:23:10 UTC 2004


On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:04:59AM -0700, John Reiser wrote:

> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf has a list of devices that kudzu records at boot,
> and my USB scanner and USB mouse, which remain plugged in at all times,
> appear in that list.  Why not simulate a hotplug event based on
> [some of] the devices listed in hwconf?   I observe that logging in
> on the console PS2 keyboard+display causes usb.agent to be called for
> my USB mouse, although agent finds no matches, and nothing changes.
> This seems peculiar to me: I never unplug or re-plug the mouse.
> [My mouse is actually a Logitech trackball: 0x046d/0xc404.]

A hotplug event a log-in (and after pam_console has done its stuff)
seems to be what's needed, yes.

Tim.
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