Hello, this is a serious question and a serious issue, as far I can see.
For the last month I've been trying all possible workarrounds an tricks
I could possibly imagine to get XOrg accept a
6 Degrees Of Freedom HID compliant Input Device
as Input. And after one month I stand, though more frustrated, where I
stood before. Not only is there a lack of alternatives to the canonical
input drivers mouse and evdev, latter, which I supposedly replacing the
mousedrv is furthermore inferiour to the former and, considering the
time for which HID is a widely accepted standard, poorly functional.
A unindentificable and unverificable man-page which I found online [1]
makes claim of far enhanced configuration for evdev but I find no trace
of such capabilities anywhere on any distribution.
The lack of a GENERIC HID driver, something which is widely implemented
by various software (GIMP for example supports HID from a raw input
stream from /dev/input out of the box - although with limited
configuration) in XOrg is severe!
Many devices which are designed HID compliant and are thus supposed to
work out-of-the box with any contemporary operating system (not just
Windows) do simply not function with X unless there is a specific Driver
for the device.
If I had the experience with driver programming I'd immediately get to
work - it must be trivial with the readily available set of HID
libraries, and I think any more experienced programmer could make a
half-decent HID driver in notime - although calibration and keymapping
would be mandatory - or is XInput too unflexible to handle arbitrary HID
input?
--MD
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