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Skribent: Fred
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Emne: Re: [DNG] mouse driver question
Hi Karl,

On 5/11/22 05:02, karl@??? wrote:
> Fred:
> ...
>> The Sun Compact 1 three button mouse is 1200 baud, 8 data bits, no
>> parity and sends 5 bytes in Mouse Systems protocol. Byte 0 is button
>> info. exactly the same as msc. Byte 1 is 8 bit signed X movement. Byte
>> 2 is 8 bit signed Y movement. Bytes 3, 4 are zero.
>
> That fits the Mousesystems protocol as described in man mouse.
>
> ...
>> The problem seems to be that movement info. is not being sent or is
>> incorrect when the middle button is down. The inputattach program
>> appears to be decoding the mouse protocol so I think that is where the
>> problem is. I am not a C programmer so I can't determine what is wrong.
> ...
>
> If I look at utils/inputattach.c from
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxconsole/files/latest/download
>
> inputattach does
> . option handling
> . sets the line discipline:
>    ldisc = N_MOUSE;
>    if (ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, &ldisc) < 0) {
> . sets the device type (e.g. it's a MSC mouse)
>    ioctl(fd, SPIOCSTYPE, &devt)
> . goes into the background (daemon())
> . stays there just emptying the input buffer of the serial port

>
> So, inputattach does not decode the byte stream from the mouse.
> Instead it seems that the kernels drivers/input/mouse/sermouse.c
> does that. Look in the
> static void sermouse_process_msc(struct sermouse *sermouse, signed char data)
> function.
>
> So... the "input" way is too buggy. Why not consider the deprecated X11
> mouse driver.
>
> ///
>
> You should be able to do lsinput from input-utils package to see which
> /dev/input/inputX file your mouse's byte stream transformed as events
> would appear. And then run input-events X to see the events. E.g.:
>
> # lsinput | tail
> open /dev/input/event11: No such device or address
>
> /dev/input/event10
>     bustype : BUS_I8042
>     vendor  : 0x2
>     product : 0xa
>     version : 0
>     name    : "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
>     phys    : "isa0060/serio1/input0"
>     bits ev : (null) (null) (null)

Why did you pick event10?
I have event0 to 21 also mice and mouse0 in that directory.

>
> # input-events -t 100 10
> /dev/input/event10
>     bustype : BUS_I8042
>     vendor  : 0x2
>     product : 0xa
>     version : 0
>     name    : "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
>     phys    : "isa0060/serio1/input0"
>     bits ev : (null) (null) (null)

>
> waiting for events
> 11:58:57.217543: (null) ??? (0x110) pressed
> 11:58:57.217543: (null) code=0 value=0
> 11:58:57.356137: (null) ??? (0x110) released
> 11:58:57.356137: (null) code=0 value=0
> 11:58:59.084678: (null) ??? (0x112) pressed
> 11:58:59.084678: (null) code=0 value=0
> 11:58:59.225056: (null) ??? (0x112) released
> 11:58:59.225056: (null) code=0 value=0
> 11:58:59.613730: (null) ??? (0x111) pressed
> 11:58:59.613730: (null) code=0 value=0
> 11:58:59.689984: (null) ??? (0x111) released
> 11:58:59.689984: (null) code=0 value=0
> ^C
> #
>
> Where I pressed the left, middle and lastly right button on my laptop.
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
>
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I think we are barking up the wrong tree here. The application sees the
button because the pointer freezes when it is pressed. What is missing
is X and Y movement info. while the button is pressed.

Best regards,
Fred