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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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