My /dev/input/uinput device (user-space input device) drivers do not appear to be working. The uinput module is loaded, and can be clearly seen via lsmod. If reloaded, no output appears in dmesg. However, apps that try to use the device (ie. Pystromo) fail to register any input (checked with xev), and attempting to access the device results in an error message. # ls -l /dev/input/uinput crw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 10, 223 Dec 31 2009 /dev/input/uinput # cat /dev/input/uinput cat: /dev/input/uinput: No such device This is currently occuring using gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r1, but has also been an issue with earlier kernel versions.
Created attachment 215263 [details] Kernel Config - Gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r1
Do you have a package, that's in portage (as pystromo doesn't seem to be one) that uses uinput ? Otherwise, it's not a bug, but a support question.
I had believed that the uinput device 'error' was a sign that the device itself was broken. This appears to be an incorrect assumption, as updating evdev seems to have eliminated whatever was actually wrong (Pystromo works), and yet this message persists. Closing as invalid.
