Is there an input driver for Linux's generic /dev/input/eventx
interface?
After glancing through the source and mailing list archives, it seems
that the wacom input driver does support it (see the functions with
names including "USB" in
programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/wacom/xf86Wacom.c), but that this
support is specific to wacom devices.
Has someone attempted to write a driver for it? If not, is there a good
reason I shouldn't attempt to write one? Would it belong as yet another
modification to the (rather complicated) "mouse" driver, or as a new
"event" driver? Is this even the right place to be asking these sorts
of questions?
Oh, and to answer the inevitable question of "why?":
I have an Intellimouse Explorer that uses USB. It seems that Linux's
/dev/input/mice (which emulates the IMPS/2 protocol) interprets the 6th
and 7th buttons as buttons 2 and 3; the protocol doesn't allow for other
buttons. In any case, /dev/input/eventx is the "correct" way to get
input events for USB devices in Linux, isn't it?
(I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me your responses; I plan
to subscribe to the list if this is the right place to ask questions
like these.)
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Evan Martin - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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