On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:04:40PM +0100, sani.broyeur@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hi. > > I'm a newcommer on this list. I was developper a lonnnnnng time ago, so > programming should not be a problem for me as far as I can find relevant docs > and some advices :-) > > There seems to be a lack of USB remote control usable with Linux, and I don't > want to use home made LIRC adapters. > > That is why I bought either a iMON Mini and an Pinnacle PCTV remote control for > experiment, two IR remote control widely available for micro$oft OS. > > First one (iMON Mini) is recognized as HID by regular driver when hotplug but > makes it crash when all keys except 3 are depressed on the remote control. What crashes? The remote, or Linux? > After several dozen of tries, usbmon showed that weird usb packets > where send for keys that crashed the USB stack. I gave up, beeing > unable to know why with so little evidences of this phenomenon. That doesn't sound good, care to send us those oopses and usbmon traces? > Second one, the Pinnacle PCTV is sold "for Vista only" and, as expected, is not > at all recognized. It appears in lsusb as device with type given by driver, > showing an INPUT and an OUTPUT sub-device, because it can also emit IR to remote > control regular consummer devices (VCR, DVD, TV, toaster, etc, etc). > > Not beeing recognized by any driver, it does not appears in > /proc/bus/usb/devices, beeing impossible to snoop with usbmon. Because a device is not bound by a driver does not mean it will not show up in the devices file, that file shows all USB devices in the system. And as such, usbmon should let you look at it, but if no driver is talking to it, no data will be sent. > My question is: How could I tweak the hotplug/HID system to force it to take in > account this device, even if it doesn't announces itself as a regular human > interface device ? I wouldn't recommend it, unless it's a real HID device. Probably just write an input driver for it instead, once you figure out the data protocol being used. good luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
