Re: ps2/ new data for mouse protocol (fwd msg attached)

Gunther Mayer
2001-07-25T11:08:54Z

Erik Mouw wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:32:29PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > Have a look into the attached email before reading mine, please.
> >
> > Is it possible to find out about what those bytes are ?
> > And is it possible to intergrate the support for other
> > 3 bytes into the Linux kernel ?
>
> So they put information about four buttons in six bytes and call that
> proprietary? ROFL! How hard can it be? I think it will be fairly
> straight forward to reverse engineer the format, it can't be rocket
> science.

No need for this, just read the public available documentation !

Proprietary != Secret.

However, some mouse secrets from various sources I hacked in here: http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/gm_psauxprint-0.01.c