Re: Logic3 USB Dance Mat

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On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 07:48:34PM +0100, Alan Jones wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've attempted to write a driver for the logic3 usb dance mat.
> 
> It "works" without a driver, but appears as a keyboard (though no
> event node - at least with the setup I've got). And the directions
> function as
> Q        Up       E
> Left     S  Right
> Z      Down    C
> 
> As well as an enter and escape up the top - predictably mapped.
> 
> So my attempt was to fuse the xpad driver with the usbhid driver to
> form some freakish combination where I could remap those keys to
> buttons. The attempt lies here http://www.binaryiris.com/l3usbmat.c
> 
> The first problem I had was that the mat was still recognized as a
> keyboard - so I added it's details to hid-core.c in the blacklist to
> prevent it from using the usbhid driver. However while that stopped it
> and my module loads ok - it doesn't create any dev nodes and I'm
> completely out of ideas.

You need to register with the input subsystem, probably as a joystick
device in order for this to be exposed to userspace properly.

Have you tried that?

thanks,

greg k-h

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