Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tomas Carnecky wrote: Despite it's a Microsoft product, it's actually very nice and useful. A little pad with a few buttons and connectors for a headset. It's an USB device, but it doesn't represent itself as an input/HID device: HID device not claimed by input or hiddev I plugged it into a w

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-19 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote: >> I already thought about this option (to whitelist this particular >> vendor/device ID as an hid-input device), but I first wanted some >> feedback on the whole situation. As for the patch, I have zero knowledge >> of the hid subsyst

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-19 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > >>> Despite it's a Microsoft product, it's actually very nice and useful. A >>> little pad with a few buttons and connectors for a headset. It's an USB >>> device, but it doesn't represent itself as an input/HID device: >>>HID devic

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-18 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > There's no further processing needed in the kernel. The userspace > application would receive these input events and act accordingly, like: > read data from the soundcard and send it to the VoIP server, or only > certain channels based on which butto

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-18 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > > Despite it's a Microsoft product, it's actually very nice and useful. A > > little pad with a few buttons and connectors for a headset. It's an USB > > device, but it doesn't represent itself as an input/HID device: > >HID device not claimed by input

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-18 Thread Lee Revell
On 5/17/07, Tomas Carnecky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Despite it's a Microsoft product, it's actually very nice and useful. A little pad with a few buttons and connectors for a headset. It's an USB device, but it doesn't represent itself as an input/HID device: HID device not claimed by input

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-18 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote: >> GameVoice is used for VoIP communication between players. It consists of >> a software and the small pad with eight buttons and connectors for the >> headset. One of the buttons can be used to mute the microphone, the >> others a

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-18 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > > We don't want neither the 'Telephony' nor 'LEDs' usages to be claimed > > by the hid-input system, that seems to make a little sense. > I changed the IS_INPUT_APPLICATION() macro to accept 'Telephony/Headset' > and now the kernel has created a new e

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-17 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Jiri Kosina wrote: > We don't want neither the 'Telephony' nor 'LEDs' usages to be claimed by > the hid-input system, that seems to make a little sense. I changed the IS_INPUT_APPLICATION() macro to accept 'Telephony/Headset' and now the kernel has created a new event device node for the device

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-17 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Additional info: HID device has two collections (whatever those are, I > have _no_ idea): If you are interested what usages and collections are (and if you are going to write the support for this device, you probably are :) ), please see http://www.u

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-17 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Additional info: HID device has two collections (whatever those are, I have _no_ idea): collection 00: type: 1, usage: 000b0005, level: collection 01: type: 2, usage: 0008003a, level: 0001 The usage of the first one means 'Telephony/Headset', the second one 'LEDs/Usage Selected Indic

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-17 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > >> Despite it's a Microsoft product, it's actually very nice and useful. A >> little pad with a few buttons and connectors for a headset. It's an USB >> device, but it doesn't represent itself as an input/HID device: >>HID dev

Re: SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-17 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Despite it's a Microsoft product, it's actually very nice and useful. A > little pad with a few buttons and connectors for a headset. It's an USB > device, but it doesn't represent itself as an input/HID device: >HID device not claimed by input or

SideWinder GameVoice driver

2007-05-17 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Despite it's a Microsoft product, it's actually very nice and useful. A little pad with a few buttons and connectors for a headset. It's an USB device, but it doesn't represent itself as an input/HID device: HID device not claimed by input or hiddev I plugged it into a windows box and the USB p