Re: evdev

Kees de Koster wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if evdev is working in SuSE 10.0 x86_64 with kernel
> 2.6.13-15-smp
>
> If I do
> $ lsmod | grep evdev
> in a konsole I get nothing so the module is not loaded I asume.
>
> $ zcat /proc/config.gz|grep EVDEV
> gives
> CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y
> so i read that it enabled in the kernel with compiling.
>
> Can somebody help me with that? How do I get evdev to work?
>

Hi Kees,

CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y
means that evdev is compiled in kernel, not as module.
CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=m
would mean it is compiled as module.

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Regards,
Rajko.
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