Re: Sony Vaio Duo 11: getting middle mouse button to work

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2014, 16:44:02 schrieb Benjamin Tissoires:
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
>>Hi Stephan,
>>
>>thanks for the traces.
>>Well, the device definitively presents an Output and an Input report
>>on the report ID 2. That means that the windows driver can send and
>>read configuration to the trackpoint through this report.
>>
>>I think our best chance here is to capture the initialization protocol
>>from a Windows virtual machine, and then mimic the behavior under
>>Linux.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Can you please help me how to do that? I install Windows in a KVM with
> the mouse device as a USB-passthrough device -- shall I detach the Linux
> USB driver?

No, you don't have to detach the Linux USB driver (it's done for you
by KVM IIRC).

>
> Now, shall I use hid-recorder on that device or rather usbmon while
> Windows is booting?

usbmon is the tool you need. hid-recorder will not work because the
hid subsystem will be disconnected as the device is used by Windows.

You can even use wireshark now. It gives you a nice interface and
interpretation of the USB packets :)

Cheers,
Benjamin
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Media Devel]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Linux Wireless Networking]     [Linux Omap]

  Powered by Linux