[clug] how to configure a second keyboard

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

I looked at this too. Simply replugging in a another usb port changes
the usb device name:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-11-11 16:18 pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:3.1.3:1.0- -> ../mouse2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-11-11 16:18 pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:3.1.3:1.0-event- -> ../event3

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-11-11 18:15 pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:3.1.4:1.0- -> ../mouse2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-11-11 18:15 pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:3.1.4:1.0-event- -> ../event3

The mouse name remained in this case, but will probably change when
other devices are plugged, or the order is changed.

Eyal

Carlo Hämäläinen wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2007 5:52 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
>> How to I tell linux that one keyboard has a different keymap? I do not even
>> know how to call the keyboard because the /dev/input/{mouseX,eventX} change
>> based on the order of plugging devices in.
> 
> Not sure about your main question, but /dev/input/by-path has symlinks
> to /dev/input/mouseX names. For example on my laptop I have
> 
>  /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse -> ../mouse1
> 
> So you might be able to get to your USB keyboard by a constant name.
> 
> -- Carlo
> 
> p.s. /dev/disk/by-id   has symlinks with unique names for USB disks,
> very handy for making a drive always go to a certain mount point, for
> example.

-- 
Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)