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From: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
To: Vincenzo Scotti <vinc94@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Perixx reprogrammable mouse
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 23:34:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141005233402.7a9a437630c6c3796fc59a96@ao2.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141005105951.GA1935@vinc94-desktop>

On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:59:51 +0200
Vincenzo Scotti <vinc94@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
> I just bought some new mouses from Perixx MX's series. They work out of the
> box with usbhid, even though they don't have an official driver under Linux to
> remap buttons, and online I couldn't find anything useful.
> So I was planning as a spare time project to write some sort of driver.
> I read that usbmon could be useful to understand the protocol, if using
> something like a Virtualbox VM with Windows running on it.

usbmon + tshark for capture, and wireshark for analysis is the best way
I found.

> Given that, would it be better to make the driver as a kernel module, or as a
> userspace application? I couldn't find any reprogrammable mouse driver in the
> kernel drivers directory.

What features do the devices offer? Something like auto-fire, latch
mode and so on?

I guess a userspace command line tool (maybe based on libusb) + udev
hooks to load a stored configuration would be enough for a prototype.

If later you want to load per-user configurations automatically you may
end up writing your own daemon/applet using libudev.

> I think that the more games will be ported to Linux, the more we'll need soon
> to have some support for this gamers-equipment.
> 
> I hope you'll give me some hints.
> 

Ciao ciao,
   Antonio

-- 
Antonio Ospite
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      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-05 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-05 10:59 Perixx reprogrammable mouse Vincenzo Scotti
2014-10-05 21:34 ` Antonio Ospite [this message]

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