[gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread michael
Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. As it is headless, I have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread Bastiaan
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. As it is headless, I

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:11:54AM -0800, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread michael
I would have thought that should be fine, but I tried that on my desktop, and it locked up my mouse so I thought there was something wrong with this approach. You are the second person to suggest this, though, so I'll try this again. Thanks, Michael On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Willie Wong wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read raw mouse events

2006-01-17 Thread michael
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Bastiaan wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what direction, but I do need to know whether it is