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 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.
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That's it. It works. Too cool.
Thanks to you and the others who suggested the same thing,
Michael
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