On Jun 26, 2007, at 1:30 AM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: > I have the official driver that just works, and also an Open Source > Unix > driver using libusb. But since it is a HID device, the OS will take > it, > and libusb can not claim it.
Note that libhid can't claim it exclusively under OS X - it just pretends it can. It works in some cases, but it looks like something is actually using the native HID calls to read from your device (instead of what I have seen, where the device can't be exclusively claimed, but nothing is reading from it unless you fire up HID Explorer). > I know I can make a codeless kext and just use the Unix driver, but > that > feels like cheating, and you'd have to reboot. The official driver > does > not need to do this, and gdb/decompile confirms it also uses > libusb, but > clearly some extra love to handle the HID issue. "use the Unix driver"? You shouldn't have to reboot to use a codeless kext - the most that might be needed is unplugging and replugging the device. That said, I haven't been successful in creating a codeless kext that actually lets me claim the device. I followed some of the mail threads regarding the ninebutton device: http://osdir.com/ml/lib.libusb.devel.general/2005-02/msg00076.html -- Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ libhid-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/libhid-discuss
