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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Bastiaan wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 09:11, michael@×××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I have a headless embedded Gentoo system. I'm using an optical mouse to |
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>> detect rotation of a wheel. I don't need to know how fast or in what |
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>> direction, but I do need to know whether it is turning or not. |
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>> As it is headless, I have not bothered to install X. I'm diskless, so I |
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>> don't have lots of memory to waste. (I'm running out of a 256M CF card.) |
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>> I expect that somewhere in the chain of drivers I can tap into a stream |
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>> of bytes coming from the mouse, and that if the mouse stops moving that |
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>> stream stops. Or otherwise changes. |
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>> Can anyone suggest where I should start looking for how to do this? |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Michael |
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> you can just cat /dev/mice or whatever your mouse device is. |
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That's it. It works. Too cool. |
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Thanks to you and the others who suggested the same thing, |
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Michael |
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