[Voyage-linux] missing /dev/input/event*

[Christoph Fritsche]

Hi Michal,

most embedded boards voyage is run on stick to the traditional user 
interface of a serial console, there is no mouse support because there 
is no mouse at all.

The module is most likely slimlined away.

Cheers
Christoph

On 05/24/2010 07:24 PM, mr.mini at centrum.cz wrote:
> I figured it out ... evdev kernel module was missing, after compiling 
> and modprobing,
> I finally have those event*s in /dev/input.
>
> Is it only me missing this module in kernel provided by this 
> distribution?
>
> Michal Minar
> _____________________________________________________________
> > Od: mr.mini at centrum.cz
> > Komu: > Datum: 24.05.2010 17:08
> > Předmět: [Voyage-linux] missing /dev/input/event*
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running voyage-0.6.5:
> $ uname -a
> Linux voyage 2.6.30-voyage #1 PREEMPT Wed Dec 30 18:39:44 GMT 2009 
> i586 GNU/Linux
>
> I need to pass the evtouch driver path to virtual event device usually 
> located in /dev/input, but
> there are no such devices:
> $ ls -l:
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     60 2010-05-24 14:32 by-id
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     60 2010-05-24 14:32 by-path
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2010-05-24 14:32 mice
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 2010-05-24 14:32 mouse0
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 13, 33 2010-05-24 14:32 mouse1
>
> There are no eventS listed in /proc/bus/input/devices either: $ cat 
> /proc/bus/input/devices I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0566 Product=3107 Version=0110
> N: Name="HID 0566:3107"
> P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0f.4-3/input1
> S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5
> U: Uniq=
> H: Handlers=kbd
> B: EV=1f
> B: KEY=837fff 2c3027 bf004444 0 0 1 f84 8a27c000 667bfa d941dfed 
> 9e0000 0 0 0
> B: REL=40
> B: ABS=1 0
> B: MSC=10
>
> I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0458 Product=005c Version=0110
> N: Name="Genius Ergo Mouse"
> P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0f.4-4/input0
> S: Sysfs=/class/input/input6
> U: Uniq=
> H: Handlers=kbd mouse0 B: EV=2001f
> B: KEY=837fff 2c3027 bf004444 0 0 70001 c04 a27c000 267bfa d9415fed 
> 8e0000 0 0 0
> B: REL=1c3
> B: ABS=1 0
> B: MSC=10
> B: LED=80
>
> compared to: (notice the Handlers line)
> archlinux $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000e Version=0000
> N: Name="ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
> P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
> S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input7
> U: Uniq=
> H: Handlers=mouse1 event7 B: EV=b
> B: KEY=6420 30000 0 0 0 0
> B: ABS=3
>
> I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0458 Product=005c Version=0110
> N: Name="Genius Ergo Mouse"
> P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.2-2/input0
> S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input9
> U: Uniq=
> H: Handlers=kbd mouse2 event8 B: EV=2001f
> B: KEY=837fff002c3027 bf00444400000000 70001 c040a27c000 
> 267bfad9415fed 8e000000000000 0
> B: REL=1c3
> B: ABS=100000000
> B: MSC=10
> B: LED=80
>
> I thought, that creation of event handlers is handled by udev ... not 
> in this case.
> Is there a way to enable creation of these handlers or am I missing 
> something?
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> follows few lines from /var/log/messages produced after plugging in 
> mouse:
> May 24 14:58:34 voyage vmunix: [  423.562069] usb 2-3: new low speed 
> USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
> May 24 14:58:34 voyage vmunix: [  423.702711] usb 2-3: configuration 
> #1 chosen from 1 choice
> May 24 14:58:35 voyage vmunix: [  423.971063] usbcore: registered new 
> interface driver hiddev
> May 24 14:58:35 voyage vmunix: [  423.979997] input: Genius Ergo Mouse 
> as /class/input/input6
> May 24 14:58:35 voyage vmunix: [  423.980698] generic-usb 
> 0003:0458:005C.0001: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Genius Ergo Mouse] on 
> usb-0000:00:0f.4-3/input0
> May 24 14:58:35 voyage vmunix: [  423.980786] usbcore: registered new 
> interface driver usbhid
> May 24 14:58:35 voyage vmunix: [  423.980806] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID 
> core driver
>
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