Re: [9front] Hardware woes

[Dave MacFarlane <driusan@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:13 AM,  <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> wrote:
> ok, this is useless. what you want is to log the c parameter only
> which is the byte that was read.
>
> so just print("%.2ux", c); should do. then dont send me screenshots,
> but try to think about what you see, because i have no information
> what you did to the mouse to identify what the bytes are.

That's what I was afraid of, but I don't know what I'm looking for. What's
the expected output of, say, a left click? (It's probably still not very useful
with the noise, but the screenshot after the USB error was literally
just touching
the trackpad, moving about a millimetre to the right, then letting go.)

> you should determine the packet size first... like hold mouse steady, and then
> toggle the buttons, and see how many bytes are printed... once you
> have that you can try identifying where the bits are for the buttons...
>

Okay, but before I get to that my gut feeling tells me that resetmouse()
isn't setting the mode properly for a synaptics (the driver that Linux
says it's using for this) trackpad. It should just emulate a PS/2 mouse by
default according to the documentation that I found
(https://www.aquaphoenix.com/hardware/ledlamp/reference/synaptics_touchpad_interfacing_guide.pdf),
but that clearly isn't happening..

I gather the i8022auxcmd function sends a byte to the mouse. If I look
up the protocol to query the mode, can I just use that function to send
the appropriate byte(s) in resetmouse() and expect the response from
the mouse  to get printed? And is there any way I can send arbitrary
bytes from the command line without recompiling the kernel/rebooting?

> there will not be a wireless driver soon, so plug the laptop on the
> ethernet or change the card.

There is no physical ethernet port and I'm pretty sure the Intel card is a
SoC. Are there any USB network dongles that are known to work?
(Either wifi or ethernet)

- Dave