On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:08:26AM +0000, Mikael Andersson wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2003 05.12, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > The good news is that I have basic patches, that support just about > > everything. > > > > I had some problems getting this patch to work on a 2.4.20 kernel > since the EVIOCGPHYS failed with an EINVAL status. And as far is > i can see the EVIOCGBUS ( whis is the 2.4.20 name of IOCTL #7 ) > And as far as i can see this ioctl is not implemented in 2.4.20. > > This isn't critical, but the "Dev Phys" option must be left out > of the configuration file or no devices will match. But other than > that mouse support seems to work.
I'll add it to the readme. Sadly, keyboard support has another major problem that I still don't know how to fix. > > I haven't tried keyboard yet but noticed that my keyboard reports > the 'name' 045e:000b ( Old Ms Natural Elite USB ). This wasn't > obvious and the reason i tried with "Dev Phys" option and discovered > that it didn't work as expexted. > It is the vendor and prodId number for the device. And i don't know > if it's kernel generated or if the device actually reports it as name. The device supplies the name in the case of USB. > > T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 6 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 > D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 > P: Vendor=045e ProdID=000b Rev= 0.82 > C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=100mA > I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hid > E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms > > > The current patches, against X 4.2.99.4, are at > > http://people.debian.org/~warp/evdev/, please read the README first. > > > > Zephaniah E. Hull. > > A short report from the field :) Thanks. -- 1024D/E65A7801 Zephaniah E. Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 92ED 94E4 B1E6 3624 226D 5727 4453 008B E65A 7801 CCs of replies from mailing lists are requested. I am an "expert". Fear me, for I will wreak untold damage upon anything I can get my grubby hands on. -- Matt McLeod on ASR.
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