When using [hid] and friends on GNU/Linux, you generally need to setup
things so you have permission to read the device directly:
http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials/HowToReadHIDDevicesInLinuxWithoutBeingRoot/?searchterm=hid%20ubuntu
.hc
On Jun 19, 2010, at 11:20 AM, James Dunn wrote:
Hi dmotd,
that's perfect! thanks a lot
James
Quoth dmotd, on 19/06/10 16:02:
hi james,
the synaptics driver generally steals the focus of the device
so that userspace programs can't directly access it, see if
the Xorg option 'Option "GrabEventDevice" "false"' helps,
see 'man synaptics' for more info.
cheers,
dmotd
James Dunn wrote:
I've tried using [hid] and [linuxmouse] and both objects can open
the device
but no data is output from either object. [MouseState] and
[cursor] both work
but I was hoping to get relative values. Is this a driver issue?
I'm using
Ubuntu 8.04 and Pd version 0.42.5-extended-rc3. Here's the console
output:
[hid] 0.7, written by Hans-Christoph Steiner<h...@eds.org>
compiled on Jun 13 2010 at 11:45:43
Device 0: 'Macintosh mouse button emulation' on '/dev/input/event0'
Device 1: 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard' on '/dev/input/event1'
Device 2: 'PC Speaker' on '/dev/input/event2'
Device 3: 'Power Button (FF)' on '/dev/input/event3'
Device 4: 'Sleep Button (CM)' on '/dev/input/event4'
Device 5: 'Lid Switch' on '/dev/input/event5'
Device 6: 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' on '/dev/input/event6'
Device 7: 'Video Bus' on '/dev/input/event7'
Device 8: 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' on '/dev/input/event8'
Supported events:
Detected:
[hid] opened device 6 (/dev/input/event6): SynPS/2 Synaptics
TouchPad
print: open 1
print: device 6
Also my xorg.conf has this info:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "FALSE"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "FALSE"
Option "SHMconfig" "on"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "TRUE"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "TRUE"
EndSection
Any ideas?
thanks,
James
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