-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:58, Anton wrote: > I have usb keyboard and i need to read events from it with shell script > (evdev module gives /dev/input/event[0|1] file, from which I read with > hexdump). While testing, I found that for the same keyboard the event file > is different on different systems (event1 at my home, event0 at work). How > could I (and my script) determine exactly from where to read for this > keyboard events? The normal answer is to use the EVIOCGID ioctl. But you can't do that from a shell script.
> Probably I must get dmesg, found last line and get event file number? Or > get it from /proc/bus/usb/devices? /proc/bus/usb/devices won't help. There isn't any correlation between event file number and the usb device number. You could parse /proc/bus/input/devices in 2.5, but that hasn't been backported to 2.4 yet. So I guess that you are up for either a helper app, or parsing dmesg. Brad - -- http://linux.conf.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Aust. I'm registered. Are you? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+AvGWW6pHgIdAuOMRAlTuAJkBd/cu71Q8+Lwl/ROR3Jj2nIvbCACfQmUt 167FV10/LwnmeW/x/Ev0eMQ= =iMDi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: The Best Geek Holiday Gifts! Time is running out! Thinkgeek.com has the coolest gifts for your favorite geek. Let your fingers do the typing. Visit Now. T H I N K G E E K . C O M http://www.thinkgeek.com/sf/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
