Re: Simple Newbie question

[Steve Castellotti <sc@eyemagnet.net>]

    Well, I'm learning anyway.

    If I remove all of my modifications to udev and hotplug, and just
plug the device in as normal, four devices are created when I plug in
the device:

Mouse:
/dev/input/event2
/dev/input/js0

Keyboard:
/dev/usbhid0
/dev/input/event3


    Three device entries are created under /sys/bus/usb/devices, one for
the Mouse, one for "Comms" and one for "Keyboard"


    Comparing to when I plug in a USB microsoft intellimouse, I get two
devices:

/dev/input/mouse0
/dev/input/event4


    Now if I try:

#gpm -D -m /dev/input/event4 -Rraw      (the "event" device created for
the microsoft mouse)

I get:

[root@eyemagnet hotplug]# gpm -D -m /dev/input/event4 -Rraw
*** info [startup.c(95)]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode.
*** debug [console.c(125)]: Screen size: 80 - 25
*** debug [gpm.c(159)]: x 10, y 20


	...which stays like that until I move the mouse. Once I move the mouse
I endlessly get:

*** err [gpm.c(89)]: Error in read()ing first: No such file or directory
*** debug [gpm.c(533)]: selected 1 times


	...to standard out.



	The *identical* thing happens if I do:

# gpm -D -m /dev/input/event2 -Rraw (the "event" device created by the
touchscreen)



	...with the looping error messages not appearing until I touch the
screen somewhere. So there's definitely a form of interaction going on.
It seems that Linux is creating a "/dev/input/js0" (joystick) device for
the "mouse" portion of the touchscreen, instead of
creating /dev/input/mouse0 like it knows to do with the Intellimouse.


	Surely I'm getting close and its a matter of telling hotplug's
input.agent (or similar) to recognize the screen as a mouse instead of a
joystick?  

	Is the correct file to modify:

/lib/modules/<kernel version>/modules.inputmap

(?)


	and if so is there a reference for how to determine the correct values?



Thanks heaps for all the help everyone!

Steve Castellotti



On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 13:48 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > # gpm -m /dev/input/mouse0 -t ps2
> > 
> >     doesn't seem have any effect.  I've tried with /dev/input/mice and
> > with types "imps2" "pnp" and "ms" as well to no effect.
> > 
> > 
> > 	
> > 	Might I have to somehow modify the usb mouse driver module to recognize
> > this device? Is there a table that I simply need to make an entry into?
> 
> I think there's a way of getting gpm to report any raw input it recieves
> ... is it receiving any input at all? 
> 
> --linas





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