Re: New HID device support

From: Jason Noble
Date: Tue Mar 03 2009 - 13:02:16 EST


On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 17:21 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Jason Noble wrote:
>
> > Jiri,
> > After a bit of googling I'm pretty sure you are the person to ask for
> > help.
> >
> > I have a new Kensington Slimblade Trackball
> > http://us.kensington.com/html/16632.html. This device just recently
> > started shipping, I'm probably one of the first few people to connect
> > one to linux.
> >
> > Using "evtest /dev/input/eventX" two of the four buttons are not
> > registering at all. With usbmon I can see data coming from these
> > buttons.
> > Can you help? If so, what info do you need?
> > If not, can you point me in the correct direction?
>
> Could you please compile your kernel with CONFIG_HID_DEBUG, modprobe the
> 'hid' module with 'debug=2' option, and send me the output that appears in
> dmesg when you

On a monolithic kernel I just pass usbhid.debug=2 at boot correct?

>
> - connect the device
> - press the non-working buttons
>
> Thanks,
>

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