[PD] how do i interact with pd without gui?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Fri Mar 26 20:55:12 CET 2004


On Friday, Mar 26, 2004, at 10:55 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht 
wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> [linuxevent] supports any device that the Linux event system does.  
>> The
>> Linux event mostly supports USB devices, so AFAIK PS/2 mice don't 
>> work,
>> for example.  So maybe only USB keyboards work with this, but I'd like
>> to be wrong about this.
>>
>> You might need to load a kernel module like evdev, or usbkeyb or
>> something like that.
>
> I could readout my PS/2 mouse as well as my PS/2 keyboard with your
> externals when trying to find where my Jogshuttle-wheel is connected
> which was /dev/input/event3, so I first tried the other devs.
>
Last I tried I couldn't get this working, but it was at least 6 months 
ago.  What kernel version are you using?  Do you happen to know any of 
the details about getting the PS/2 mouse working in the event system?

.hc





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