nsqtr
November 18th, 2011, 06:27 PM
Folks, I've got an Adesso keyboard with a Cirque Glidepoint touchpad.
Cirque is a subsidiary of Alps, although that doesn't specifically mean that Cirque's Glidepoint is compatible with the alps touchpad driver.
Nonetheless, I'm plowing forward. Between Xorg.log and the output of udevadm, I think I've got enough information to wire up the Glidepoint to the synaptic driver, assuming I can write a udev rule for inclusion in /etc/udev/rules.d.
But I cannot find a simple explanation or example of writing such a rule. Teasing out the salient part of /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules and /lib/udev/rules.d/66-xorg-synaptics-quirks.rules has been unproductive.
Can someone point me to a good source?
If I can at least wire up the rules, I can play around with different drivers.
I think I need to tell X to use a specific driver, rather than evdev, since I want to get access to seemingly vendor-specific capabilities -- which might be available through the synaptics driver.
thanks for any help. Output of udevadm and Xorg.log are below.
Using udevadm, I've lifted:
looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-2/1-2.5/1-2.5:1.0/input/input3/event3':
KERNEL=="event3"
SUBSYSTEM=="input"
DRIVER==""
looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-2/1-2.5/1-2.5:1.0/input/input3':
KERNELS=="input3"
SUBSYSTEMS=="input"
DRIVERS==""
ATTRS{name}=="Cirque GlidePoint"
ATTRS{phys}=="usb-0000:00:02.1-2.5/input0"
ATTRS{uniq}==""
ATTRS{properties}=="0"
and Xorg.log shows me:
[ 26.124] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Cirque GlidePoint (/dev/input/event3)
[ 26.125] (**) Cirque GlidePoint: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 26.125] (**) Cirque GlidePoint: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 26.125] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Cirque GlidePoint'
[ 26.125] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 26.125] (**) Cirque GlidePoint: always reports core events
[ 26.125] (**) Cirque GlidePoint: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found 3 mouse buttons
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found scroll wheel(s)
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found relative axes
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found x and y relative axes
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found absolute axes
[ 26.125] (II) evdev-grail: failed to open grail, no gesture support
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found keys
[ 26.125] (II) Cirque GlidePoint: Configuring as mouse
[ 26.125] (II) Cirque GlidePoint: Configuring as keyboard
[.... and much more...
Cirque is a subsidiary of Alps, although that doesn't specifically mean that Cirque's Glidepoint is compatible with the alps touchpad driver.
Nonetheless, I'm plowing forward. Between Xorg.log and the output of udevadm, I think I've got enough information to wire up the Glidepoint to the synaptic driver, assuming I can write a udev rule for inclusion in /etc/udev/rules.d.
But I cannot find a simple explanation or example of writing such a rule. Teasing out the salient part of /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules and /lib/udev/rules.d/66-xorg-synaptics-quirks.rules has been unproductive.
Can someone point me to a good source?
If I can at least wire up the rules, I can play around with different drivers.
I think I need to tell X to use a specific driver, rather than evdev, since I want to get access to seemingly vendor-specific capabilities -- which might be available through the synaptics driver.
thanks for any help. Output of udevadm and Xorg.log are below.
Using udevadm, I've lifted:
looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-2/1-2.5/1-2.5:1.0/input/input3/event3':
KERNEL=="event3"
SUBSYSTEM=="input"
DRIVER==""
looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-2/1-2.5/1-2.5:1.0/input/input3':
KERNELS=="input3"
SUBSYSTEMS=="input"
DRIVERS==""
ATTRS{name}=="Cirque GlidePoint"
ATTRS{phys}=="usb-0000:00:02.1-2.5/input0"
ATTRS{uniq}==""
ATTRS{properties}=="0"
and Xorg.log shows me:
[ 26.124] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Cirque GlidePoint (/dev/input/event3)
[ 26.125] (**) Cirque GlidePoint: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 26.125] (**) Cirque GlidePoint: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 26.125] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Cirque GlidePoint'
[ 26.125] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 26.125] (**) Cirque GlidePoint: always reports core events
[ 26.125] (**) Cirque GlidePoint: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found 3 mouse buttons
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found scroll wheel(s)
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found relative axes
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found x and y relative axes
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found absolute axes
[ 26.125] (II) evdev-grail: failed to open grail, no gesture support
[ 26.125] (--) Cirque GlidePoint: Found keys
[ 26.125] (II) Cirque GlidePoint: Configuring as mouse
[ 26.125] (II) Cirque GlidePoint: Configuring as keyboard
[.... and much more...