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Brian Van Den Beuken

minor issues with mouse

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got my TB2 today, and pleased to say it works pretty much out of the box. But I do have one small issue, my project needs me to get access to the mouse scroll wheel, directly, and normally I do this by putting the mouse into ImPS/2 mode

using this code... however it gives me the the cannot switch error... Is there any known reason for this?

static const size_t        mousedev_seq_len = 6;
static const unsigned char mousedev_imps_seq[] = { 0xf3, 200, 0xf3, 100, 0xf3, 80 };
	unsigned char buffer[4];
	ssize_t       len;
	const char* devpath = "/dev/input/mice";
	
	int           wasleft, wasmiddle, wasright;

	devfd = open(devpath, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY);

	/* Switch the mouse to ImPS/2 protocol. */
	if (write(devfd, mousedev_imps_seq, mousedev_seq_len) != (ssize_t)mousedev_seq_len) 
	{
		fprintf(stderr, "Cannot switch to ImPS/2 protocol.\n");
		close(devfd);
		return (void*)&devfd;; // this is rubbish to give a retun value
	}
	if (read(devfd, buffer, sizeof buffer) != 1 || buffer[0] != 0xFA) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to switch to ImPS/2 protocol.\n");
		close(devfd);
		return (void*)&devfd;
	}

 

Edited by Brian Van Den Beuken
typos

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Hi,

Please check your devpath. You can use "dmesg" or "udevadm monitor" command to get more information.

root@linaro-alip:/dev/input/by-id# udevadm monitor
monitor will print the received events for:
UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
KERNEL - the kernel uevent
[  458.189823] usb 5-1.3: new low-speed USB device number 4 using xhci-hcd
[  458.298912] usb 5-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0461, idProduct=4e84
[  458.305868] usb 5-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  458.313467] usb 5-1.3: Product: USB Optical Mouse
[  458.318335] usb 5-1.3: Manufacturer: PixArt
[  458.324909] usb 5-1.3: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 64 microframes, ep desc says 80 microframes
KERNEL[458.005759] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3 (usb)
KERNEL[458.047247] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[458.054557] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0/0003:0461:4E84.0002 (hid)
[  458.383211] input: PixArt USB Optical Mouse as /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0/0003:0461:4E84.0002/input/input5
KERNEL[458.063876] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0/0003:0461:4E84.0002/input/input5 (input)
KERNEL[458.090385] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0/0003:0461:4E84.0002/input/input5/event3 (input)
[  458.453946] hid-generic 0003:0461:4E84.0002: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [PixArt USB Optical Mouse] on usb-xhci-hcd.11.auto-1.3/input0
KERNEL[458.134852] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0/0003:0461:4E84.0002/hidraw/hidraw0 (hidraw)
UDEV  [458.165723] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3 (usb)
UDEV  [458.190489] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0 (usb)
UDEV  [458.202123] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0/0003:0461:4E84.0002 (hid)
UDEV  [458.215344] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0/0003:0461:4E84.0002/hidraw/hidraw0 (hidraw)
UDEV  [458.223512] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0/0003:0461:4E84.0002/input/input5 (input)
UDEV  [458.298266] add      /devices/platform/usb1/fe900000.dwc3/xhci-hcd.11.auto/usb5/5-1/5-1.3/5-1.3:1.0/0003:0461:4E84.0002/input/input5/event3 (input)
root@linaro-alip:/dev/input# ls
by-id  by-path  event0  event1  event2  event3


 

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Hi, 

Im not sure what your asking me to check with that command, my dev path is correct isnt it? Its listed there

const char* devpath = "/dev/input/mice";

and the mice file is there in place

and I open the mice file ok, it just refuses to switch mode?

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ok I managed to fix it, it was an access permission issue, the mice file was not allowing access so I had to use sudo chod a+r+w to make it usable. I know this isn't something linux users like to do, is there an elegant way to allow access to a file in C++?

 

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oops, I feel a bit silly, while my basic fix is correct I was actually doing in on a different machine connected to my kvm.. which was using ubuntu, sorry ? (I thought it was the TB2 it was in fact a Jetson) 

 

It seems Debian doesn't have /dev/input/mice and instead I need to check which event is controlling the mouse.... sigh. I kinda hate these small variations ?

 

But you have put me on the right track, I wasn't  accessing the mice config file (cos there isn't one) and on machines which had it it was indeed a permissions issue, so I need to review how I access my config files for keyboard and mouse.

 

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