wireless USB presenter

[Doug White]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Colin Perkins wrote:

> --> Dan Pelleg <daniel+fbsdm at pelleg.org> writes:
> > I'm considering purchasing a wireless device for remotely paging down and
> > up in a presentation (preferably also with a laser pointer). Do the USB
> > ones typically require special drivers or do they Just Work with uhid(4)?
> >
> > Specifically I'm thinking of the Targus wireless remote presenter or the
> > Honeywell PowerPresenter RF.
>
> I have a Targus wireless remote, which is detected as:
>
>   ukbd0: Innovace USB RF Keyboard, rev 1.10/3.02, addr 2, iclass 3/1
>   kbd1 at ukbd0
>   uhid0: Innovace USB RF Keyboard, rev 1.10/3.02, addr 2, iclass 3/1
>
> under a recent 4-STABLE, but doesn't appear to attach as a mouse. Any
> suggestions for getting it working would be appreciated.

Write a driver? :)  The device doesn't claim to conform to the USB mouse
protocol, so you'll have to write something to interpret what its doing
and react accordingly.  On the plus side, HID devices have a limited set
of functionality, so you could write some sort of hid-to-sysmouse proxy.

USB HID has an idea of buttons and movement axes I think... been a while
since I read that spec.

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