On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:11:09PM -0400, Brian S. Julin wrote:
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| On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, dman wrote:
| > Hmm, nope I don't have /dev/e*. I have /dev/input/mice and
| > /dev/input/mouse0 because I am using devfs and a usb mouse.
|
| I've used linux-edev sucessfully with USB mice before.
|
| > According to the linux-evdev section of the doc (just read that) the
| > events are from /dev/input/eventX. The only files in /dev/input are
| > 'mouse0' and 'mice'. Do I need to change some kernel config to enable
| > the event devices?
|
| Yes, this one, under input core support:
|
| qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq Event interface support (NEW) qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
| x CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV: x
| x x
| x Say Y here if you want your USB or ADB HID device events be accessible x
| x under char device 13:64+ - /dev/input/eventX in a generic way. x
| x This is the future ... x
|
| :-)
Thanks. I had built this as a module, but I didn't know what it was.
When I modprobed it I got /dev/input/event0. I'm not getting anything
from libgii using it though, with a variety of protocols.
| > I don't know if that protocol is missing (would I get an error
| > message?) but it doesn't seem to be working for me :-(.
|
| Hmm, well there is this in the changelog:
|
| * input/mouse/: input.c (1.20), mouse.h (1.6), packetparse.c
| (1.19): Restructured packet parser so we can fall back to another
| parser when the device can't be initialized. Currently used by
| mmanps2 and imps2 parsers. Changed button mask in parse_imps2()
| from 0x07 to 0x0f. This allows four buttons as used by the
| Linux USB-mouse driver, and hopefully it shouldn't break anything
| for three-button mice. Fixed fatal bug in parse_imps2() - We
| should return 4, not 3. Added new parser type "lnxusb" for
| USB-mice under Linux. It uses the imps2 parser, but doesn't require
| any initialization.
Interesting. I tried using /dev/gpmdata with the 'lnxusb' parser and
it works, except for the scroll wheel. I guess lnxusb is just enough
different from imps2 that imps2 doesn't work on it for libgii (though
gpm and XFree86 can deal with it).
This is a step forward. Thank you very much for your help. Now if I
could get the scroll wheel to work, that would be great.
-D
