Hi SImon, On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:49:29AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to track down a problem with SDL missing events from a gaming > wheel. It looks like it's not seeing a 'section' of events and this > results in an axis from the wheel/joystick being stuck on. > > If I simultaneously use evtest to monitor the same /dev/input/eventX I see > all the events in evtest, but not in SDL. > > I suspect that some scheduling (or other business) is causing SDL not to > check the file handle, and as a result the input system is > dropping/resyncing the interface. > > Can anyone here confirm the behaviour under the situation that one client > is busy? What is the maximum time it can be 'away' or what is the size of > the inline buffer?
Every user of event device has a buffer that can hold up at least 64 input events and is completely independent from other users. Newer kernels generate EV_SYN/SYN_DROPPED event to indicate that user was too slow reading data and there was buffer overrun. Hope this helps. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
