On Saturday 10 March 2007, Adam Kropelin wrote:
>Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> I am still however pretty far from being convinced that this will make
>> your application work. But as I absolutely don't know what your
>> application is expecting to obtain from serial port and how does this
>> compare to what it is getting from usb hiddev, it's just wild guesses.
>
>hiddev returns a hiddev_event structure from read() calls. I don't see
>the faintest possibility that an application designed to work over a
>bare serial port would ever properly interpret this structure without
>specifically being modified to do so. The application must be written to
>use hiddev. Period.
>
>Gene's moudly old Belkin application is written to talk to *serial port*
>UPSes, like those sold 5 years ago. It'll never work with a USB HID
>based UPS.
>
>--Adam

Well, I just took a look at the data from the serial port, and it appears 
to be about 2x as verbose as compared to the terseness of the hiddev0 
capture.  OTOH, if I turn on the hiddev debugging, the decoding that does 
looks pretty close to correct, but the machine isn't usable for anything 
but a reset button reboot since the data is echo'd to every  tty on the 
system.  I couldn't even do a startx.

But between that, and the other admonitions, I'm beginning to think its a 
lost cause.  Now, if I could figure out how to make nut work, that might 
help.  Or, make wine run the (spit) winderz version of the driver.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
While you're chewing, think of STEVEN SPIELBERG'S bank account ...  his
will have the same effect as two "STARCH BLOCKERS"!

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