I've got a controller hooked up that is a pain to unplug. It's a steering wheel with pedals and in some applications/games it acts like I'm holding down on a joystick. When I'm in Windows I simply open devices & printers, right click the icon for the steering wheel and select remove. How can I do this on Ubuntu? Preferably with an easy command I can alias.
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Open nautilus. In the side bar is a list of external drives. Click the Eject (⏏) button.
If you can't see this, press F9.
This only applies to storage devices.
Open Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)
Run the command xinput
:
$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ Microsoft Trackball Explorer® id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
UVC Camera (046d:08c9) id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
BTC USB Multimedia Keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
BTC USB Multimedia Keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
Eee PC WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
You should be able to see it there, for example my mouse is a Microsoft Trackball Explorer®
and it has an id of 10
.
Yours will also have an id. Run the following command:
xinput disable <ID>
then to enable it (if you want)
xinput enable <ID>
a restart also resets this, so they will all become active again.
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1I doubt that
a steering wheel with pedals
comes up in Nautilus - or does it ;-] ?– HannuAug 13, 2014 at 17:39 -
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It's not showing up under xinput for some reason, but it is definitely accepting input. This is what I get from xinput: i.imgur.com/e5VS15o.png– aboutrosAug 13, 2014 at 18:12
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What about disabling 9 + 10? Be careful, that might be your keyboard... I'm just thinking it might identify as both.– TimAug 13, 2014 at 18:17
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1@Spaisekraft - ouch. How about comparing
lsusb
output then? Does that help? Is there other means to disable USB-devices?– HannuAug 13, 2014 at 19:06