From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Simple Newbie question
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 05:16:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050504051601.GA16768@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115181822.12538.0.camel@odyssey>
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:43:42PM +1200, Steve Castellotti wrote:
> hey all-
>
> I recently came across a USB touchscreen I'm trying to get to work
> under linux. If I plug it in under windows it registers as an HID-
> compliant device, and starts working with no additional drivers, so I
> don't believe this should be very difficult. (I'm running Fedora Core 3
> with linux kernel2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at incidentally)
>
>
> By diffing changes to /proc/bus/usb/devices, I've gotten a the info:
>
> P: Vendor\000 ProdIDÿff Rev= 1.00
>
> which I've confirmed is the correct device.
>
>
>
> I've then edited /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap and added the following lines:
>
> usbhid 0x0000 0x0000 0xffff 0x0000 0x0000
> 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x00 0x00000000
> keybdev 0x0000 0x0000 0xffff 0x0000 0x0000
> 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x00 0x00000000
> mousedev 0x0000 0x0000 0xffff 0x0000 0x0000
> 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x00 0x00000000
>
>
> (The device appears three times in /var/log/messages, as a "USB HID
> v1.00 Mouse" a "USB HID v1.00 Device" and a "USB HID v1.00 Keyboard" but
> of course I'm only interested in the mouse functionality)
>
>
> Diffing the changes to /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid, the device is
> appearing on 2-1, so I've created a rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d:
>
> BUS="usb", PLACE="2-1", NAME="input/mouse0"
>
>
>
> The device seems to be recognized as a usbhid device even without
> the hotplug or udev changes, but gpm fails to recognize it. Even after
> the changes, while /dev/input/mouse0 will appear correctly, gpm still
> will not recognize the mouse.
You should not need any hotplug or udev changes.
But you should point gpm to use the new /dev/input/mouse0 or the
/dev/input/mice device node. Good luck with that.
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-04 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-04 4:43 Simple Newbie question Steve Castellotti
2005-05-04 5:16 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-05-05 0:49 ` Steve Castellotti
2005-05-05 18:48 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-05-06 11:50 ` Steve Castellotti
2005-05-06 11:52 ` Steve Castellotti
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