Description of problem: I do an xinput --list, it prints out a lot of stuff including: "Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse" id=10 [slave pointer (2)] I say: xinput --set-button-map "Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse" 1 8 3 4 5 6 7 2 It says: unable to find device Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse I replace the string with "10" (the device id) it works perfectly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-apps-7.4-13.fc13.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.3.99-2.20100108.fc13.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% of the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: Unable to find the device it just told me the name of :-). Expected results: Set the dadgum device properties. Additional info: The device name, obtained in the exact same fashion, works fine in fedora 12 with xinput.
Just got all updates loaded on new install of fedora 13 beta, and this bug is now gone. Current rpms are: xorg-x11-apps-7.4-13.fc13.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.4.0-2.fc13.x86_64 Since that's the same xorg-x11-apps, I guess the problem was really with evdev, but it is fixed now.