On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 03:18:42PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote: >> This is what evtest reports about my keyboard: >> >> Select the device event number [0-12]: 2 >> Input driver version is 1.0.1 >> Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x413c product 0x2107 version 0x111 >> Input device name: "DELL Dell USB Entry Keyboard" >> Supported events: >> Event type 0 (EV_SYN) >> Event type 1 (EV_KEY) >> Event code 1 (KEY_ESC) >> Event code 2 (KEY_1) >> Event code 3 (KEY_2) >> Event code 4 (KEY_3) >> ... >> Event code 193 (KEY_F23) >> Event code 194 (KEY_F24) >> Event code 240 (KEY_UNKNOWN) >> Event code 272 (BTN_LEFT) >> Event code 273 (BTN_RIGHT) >> Event code 274 (BTN_MIDDLE) >> Event type 4 (EV_MSC) >> Event code 4 (MSC_SCAN) >> Event type 17 (EV_LED) >> Event code 0 (LED_NUML) state 1 >> Event code 1 (LED_CAPSL) state 0 >> Event code 2 (LED_SCROLLL) state 0 >> Event code 3 (LED_COMPOSE) state 0 >> Event code 4 (LED_KANA) state 0 >> Key repeat handling: >> Repeat type 20 (EV_REP) >> Repeat code 0 (REP_DELAY) >> Value 250 >> Repeat code 1 (REP_PERIOD) >> Value 33 >> Properties: > > looks like it's not tagged as ID_INPUT_MOUSE by the default udev rules > because for that we need x/y axes (either relative for real mice or absolute > ones for the VMWare USB mouse). This keyboard only has buttons though. So it > gets ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD for the keys, but no ID_INPUT_MOUSE. > > Google isn't overly forthcoming on "DELL Dell USB Entry Keyboard" but the > few pictures I can find all point to a keyboard that doesn't have any > physical mouse buttons at all. Does yours have buttons? Can you post a > picture of it somewhere? > Michal is using udev/hwdb to replace some of the keys on his keyboard to generate BTN_RIGHT/BTN_MIDDLE trying to achive the same end result as with mac_hid. It is not the default keyboard behavior. Having another custom udev rule to mark the device as ID_INPUT_MOUSE is a fair requirement in this case I think. -- Dmitry -- 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
