[Xastir] Linux Joystick Tweaks (off topic? ;-)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Jeremy Utley wrote:

> > It's in "/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules".  I changed this
> > section:
> >
> >   # input devices
> >   #KERNEL=="mouse*|mice|event*",  NAME="input/%k", MODE="0640"
> >   KERNEL=="mouse*|mice",      NAME="input/%k", MODE="0640"
> >   KERNEL=="event*",       NAME="input/%k", MODE="0666"
> >   #
> >   #KERNEL=="js*",         NAME="input/%k", MODE="0644"
> >   KERNEL=="js*",          NAME="input/%k", MODE="0666"
>
> It probably should not be done this way - by doing this, if your
> distribution provides any form of update to the udev package, your
> changes will be overwritten.  You should probably create a new file -
> something like 51-custom-joystick.rules - and have it contain these
> lines.  It will then override anything in previous files.

Thanks for that!  I just did an update on a couple of systems and a
complete install on another this weekend.  Yep, my mods went bye-bye
and I've since converted to your way of thinking.

I created a "51-joystick-we7u.rules" file on each system with only
two lines in it.  There was already a file in there starting with
"51-", but it doesn't matter as long as I don't have a name clash.

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