On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:11:54AM -0800, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: > Hi, > > I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to > detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what > direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. > > As it is headless, I have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I > don't have lots of memory to waste. (I'm running out of a 256M CF card.) > > I expect that somewhere in the chain of drivers I can tap into a stream > of bytes coming from the mouse, and that if the mouse stops moving that > stream stops. Or otherwise changes. > > Can anyone suggest where I should start looking for how to do this?
hope I am not misunderstanding you, but what's wrong with cat /dev/input/mice HTH, W -- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 66 days, 2:26 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
