Re: [9front] Hardware woes

[stanley lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On June 29, 2016 10:18:40 AM EDT, Dave MacFarlane <driusan@gmail.com> wrote:
>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

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