USB Presenter with linux
On Sat, 06 May 2006 20:18:26 -0400, Geico Caveman staggered into the Black Sun and said: ITYM "mouse". There's no reference to USB in the man page for xorg.conf, and USB mice have never...
I recently acquired a Keyspan Easy Presenter PR-EZ71 presentation device. I wish to use this with my laptop for my presentations.
On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:42:48 -0400, Geico Caveman staggered into the Black Sun and said: Cool. OK. The USB mouse is set up...
I have found some links via google that indicate that such a device can be used as a USB HID mouse keyboard combo.
I then entered the following in myetc-X11-xorg.conf :
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Presentation Mouse" Driver "usbmouse" Option "CorePointer" #Option "AlwaysCore" Option "Device" "-dev-input-mouse2" Option "Protocol" "ImPS-2" #Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" #Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
The device is clearly being recognized as a mouse-keyboard hybrid :
May 6 19:54:46 host kernel: 4296472.621000 usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhcihcd and address 2 May 6 19:54:46 host kernel: 4296472.794000 usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 6 19:54:46 host kernel: 4296472.826000 input: TopSeed Technology Corp. USB RF Combo Device asclbutt-input-input4 May 6 19:54:46 host kernel: 4296472.826000 input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard TopSeed Technology Corp. USB RF Combo Device on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2 May 6 19:54:46 host kernel: 4296472.874000 input: TopSeed Technology Corp. USB RF Combo Device asclbutt-input-input5 May 6 19:54:46 host kernel: 4296472.874000 input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse TopSeed Technology Corp. USB RF Combo Device on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2
So, clearly using usbmouse driver alone in xorg.conf is unlikely to work and indeed it does not work.
Any suggestions ?
GC
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