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 have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I > don't have lots of memory to waste. (I'm running out of a 256M CF card.) > > I expect that somewhere in the chain of drivers I can tap into a stream > of bytes coming from the mouse, and that if the mouse stops moving that > stream stops. Or otherwise changes. > > Can anyone suggest where I should start looking for how to do this? > > Thanks, > Michael
you can just cat /dev/mice or whatever your mouse device is. -- [email protected] mailing list
