Hi, Greg KH wrote: >> I now have two questions: are there chances that the device is just a >> regular "keyboard" that is not recognized by the kernel as such? If yes, >> could I force the kernel to treat the device as "keyboard"? > > I already should be, through the evdev interface, right? > > Shouldn't it already be working properly? I'm a bit confused by that device, so let me explain what I see: /proc/bus/input/devices lists two devices for the SpeechMike: I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0911 Product=149a Version=0100 N: Name="HID 0911:149a" P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input3 S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.3/input/input8 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse1 event8 B: EV=17 B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 B: REL=103 B: MSC=10 I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0911 Product=149a Version=0100 N: Name="HID 0911:149a" P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input5 S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.5/input/input9 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event9 B: EV=13 B: KEY=c000000000000 0 B: MSC=10 The first one is the mouse, which works as it should. The second one seems to be the keys. There is a device file /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:1a.1-usb-0\:1\:1.5-event- But neither cat nor the read example from http://www.frogmouth.net/hid-doco/c537.html (example 10) do show any activity when pressing a button. The only activity I get is on /dev/hiddev0, the read example shows the following output there (it puts the data into an input_event struct): Event: time -545467072509.4288741380, type 4, code 65441, value 0 Event: time 4288741380.4288741380, type 4, code 65441, value 0 Event: time 4288741380.4288741380, type 4, code 65441, value -124 Event: time -545467072509.4288741380, type 4, code 65441, value 0 Event: time 4288741380.4288741380, type 4, code 65441, value 0 Event: time 4288741380.4288741380, type 4, code 65441, value 4 It's the same for all buttons except for a different value onPress (the first three lines). So to answer your question, I'm not sure, but it does not look like it would be working as-is. I tried this with kernel 2.6.27.19 (openSUSE 11.1 default kernel), and SUSE KOTD 2.6.29-master_20090410180944_41da72a7-default with the same results. What do you suggest to get it working? Look further at Kernel-based solutions (unfortunately I'm completely new in this area, so I don't think I'll be able to do anything here without a lot of help) or write a userspace library using /dev/hiddev0 (from what I've read I assume that's how the Linux SDK by Philips solves this, but I haven't been able to obtain it yet, so I don't know for sure). Philipp -- 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
