Questions tagged [hid]
Human Interface Device
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Changing HID device type
I bought this lovely old Macally iBall Pro and I have it setup well in Ubuntu 22.04 using xinput to configure middle button emulation and scrolling with a button. Like so:
xinput set-prop "12&...
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Running a script based on raw events from a specific HID?
bit of a strange issue for you. I have an old 2-in-1 laptop tablet thing that works well enough, except the driver for the touchscreen occasionally crashes, leaving it unusable. I have a simple script ...
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Mouse buttons on keyboard/touchpad (integrated wireless USB adapter) not working - Sony Vaio Tap 11
Installed Fedora 41 (Gnome) on an old Sony Vaio Tap 11. Almost everything works out of the box, more or less. Clicking/releasing the mouse buttons does not work. Tapping on the touchpad does not work ...
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Adding a usb keyboard driver to a custom Linux firmware
I have a router running a custom Linux as firmware. I can ssh in and install packages via the entware repository. I’ve attached a keyboard to the USB port and I’d like to read the keyboard input. The ...
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How can I unbind a device without sudo?
Currently I use the following command to disable / enable my touchscreen.
sudo bash -c 'echo "<device-id>" > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-multitouch/unbind'
Is there a way to achieve ...
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Unable to locate package USBHID
Since this morning my mouse is not working anymore on my Debian 11 google cloud VM, so I restarted the machine but the mouse is still not responding to clicking (my keyboard somehow is).
I checked and ...
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How can I get user's idle time of whole day?
How can we get the user's idle time, defined as the time during which the user hasn't struck the keyboard or even made a mouse movement in Ubuntu 22.04. It should display with the username, the user's ...
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how to make mouse and keyboard work again after disabled all input devices
I want to disable internal keyboard of my laptap, then I followed this answer and this doc (because it's Ubuntu and Wayland)
so I created a .rules includes:
KERNELS=="input2",
ATTRS{name}==&...
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"rmmod g_hid" causes kernel crash: "Device 'hidg.0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed"
I am getting the below kernel crash when I try to rmmod the g_hid module. Can someone provide me with a lead?
[ 261.125986] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 261.130656] Device 'hidg.0' does ...
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Keyboad and mouse pad are not working in Ubuntu-22.04 LTS linux for Lenovo V15 Gen4, 7520U
The keyboard and Mouse/touchpad are not working in Ubuntu-22.04 LTS OS on Lenovo V14 Gen4 7520U CPU. The external keyboard and mouse work perfectly. Is there any solution?
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Hidraw doesn't find device without device-specific kernel driver being loaded
I'm trying to make a userspace Linux program that talks to a Bluetooth HID device, specifically the Wii remote.
When the hid-wiimote kernel module is loaded, I can use the hidapi library (with the ...
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Virtual keyboard using UHID
I am trying to achieve what the QMK firmware does for keyboards but using software. So, I would like to turn off keys, substitute some keys for others, layers and etc.
The first thing that appeared ...
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Mouse multimedia buttons are not emitting events in `/dev/input/eventX`
I have a mouse (Canyon CND-SGM14RGB) with multiple programmable buttons, half of them are set to be multimedia buttons.
Software for configuration is Windows-only, and those buttons work in Windows -- ...
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Binding a mouse to a custom Character Device driver instead of the generic HID one
I am trying to write a simple Linux USB mouse driver, and I've run into a problem with actually getting the information from the mouse to the module.
Right now I have a kernel module that can be ...
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Linux evdev subsystem vs libusb
What are the advantages and disadvantages to using the evdev subsystem versus accessing input devices using libusb?
The kernel docs for evdev state:
This is the preferred interface for userspace to ...
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