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My friend had problems with touchscreen (they are gone after two reboots) after her sister used her laptop and when I tried to help I didn't find a way to identify /dev/input/* files. One way I've found was to grep in $ dmesg (/var/log/kern.log) but it doesn't work for me.

Does any standard method exist?

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You may use the tool lsinput that you can get installing the package input-utils.

sudo apt-get install input-utils
sudo lsinput
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I am not an expert on this (just looked a bit when trying to detect if an external mouse is connected, which is quite a treat)... have you tried this?

grep "/dev/input/event" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

there is a lot of info there. And no, I do not think IDs corresponds, I have 11 /dev/input/event# and 13 ID in xinput...

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  • Thanks, but Xorg log didn't show all of them.
    – int_ua
    Jan 6, 2012 at 11:53
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And if you don't have Internet connection:
cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep "Name\|Handlers"

Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/565543

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