-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:44 am, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Montag, 26. Januar 2004 00:17 schrieb Brad Hards: > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:47 am, you wrote: > > > > > Aren't keys who are advertising themselves in that way according to > > > > > the standard declaring themselves not to be keyboards? It seems to > > > > > me that such devices should use the system control usage of usage > > > > > page 0x01. > > > > > > > > Should have? Maybe, maybe not - depends on what buttons you are > > > > trying to use. But that is irrelevant - you can't fix the firmware in > > > > a keyboard when it is already shipped, and now we have to do the best > > > > thing possible by the users... > > > > > > On second thought, maybe we should evaluate the descriptors in that > > > case. If the device has just keys, make it a keyboard, else not. > > > > The heiristic is going to be difficult. Have you seen USB speakers - same > > as some of the keys on a multimedia keyboard. > > > > This is probably the best option though. > > > > BTW: what devices are using 0xC0001, and don't want to be input devices? > > They didn't say. Might be worth a followup question.
> Yes, it's a bad idea on third thought. Keyboards may have sliders, too. > Do you really have such a device or is this a recollection? I recall that my keyboard (Logitech) does this. I think my USB speakers (Philips) do this too. But I can't get lsusb to read the descriptors, and don't really feel like recompiling the kernel today, so I am working from recollection. Maybe later. > PS: Should we take this back to the list, so Vojtech can comment? Done. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAFILNGwwszQ/PZzgRAvbjAJ451nWRh/XjyElH8s0WzGj0whtGVACgnZht b0e7Pi4S6NGYMfeLcrV98eM= =HjVL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
