Re: uinput problem

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

Hi Tobias,

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 06:20:17PM +0200, Tobias M??ller wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm trying to write a small userspace program to receive keys via rs232 and sent the corresponding key events.
>
> Everything seems to work fine, except when I'm sending something like Aa oder aA where die keycode is the same. Then only AA or aa is recognized. I did't set the EV_REP bit because i don't need any auto-repeat features.
>
> I'm sending the events via the following function.
>
> void SysKeypress(int fd, int code, int down) {
> 	struct input_event ev;
> 	memset (&ev, 0, sizeof(ev));
> 	ev.type=EV_KEY; ev.code=code; ev.value=down;
> 	write (fd, &ev, sizeof(ev));
> }
>
> and if I hardcode an
>
> 	SysKeypress (uinput_fd, KEY_LEFTSHIFT, 1);
> 	SysKeypress (uinput_fd, KEY_1, 1);
> 	SysKeypress (uinput_fd, KEY_1, 0);
> 	SysKeypress (uinput_fd, KEY_LEFTSHIFT, 0);
>
> 	SysKeypress (uinput_fd, KEY_1, 1);
> 	SysKeypress (uinput_fd, KEY_1, 0);
>
> it only receices an !! and if I change the blocks an 11.
>
> I read the documentfile about input drivers, but i didn't find anything special about uinput.
>

Are you working in the console or in X? What keyboard driver are you
using? You may want to send EV_SYN/SYN_REPORT calls in between
keypress events since consumers might rely on them.

-- 
Dmitry