XInput holding stale evtouch device node

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 03:38:25PM -0700, David Parker wrote:
> I am using xorg 6.9.0 on Debian in an embedded-like system with an eGalax USB
> touchscreen. My problem is that if the screen is turned off and back on, X
> stops receiving touchscreen events and there's no way to interact with the
> system anymore.
> 
> Hibernate (ACPI suspend to disk) doesn't have this problem, only hotplugging
> the USB device. I've found that switching to a text console and back to the X
> terminal forces X to reopen the device, which makes everything work again.
> 
> Are there any utilities or workarounds to force a reopen or reinitialization
> of the touchscreen device? 

You should be able to send SIGUSR2 (I think it is) to the X server, but
switching to a VT and back should also do that too, depending on the
driver.

Cheers,
Daniel
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