From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 2 16:02:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B3E16A4E9 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:02:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from chipmunk.ai.net (axe.ai.net [205.134.161.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6271B13C481 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:02:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (ip70-177-190-239.dc.dc.cox.net [70.177.190.239]) by chipmunk.ai.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id l22Fe3m9085806; Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:40:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:39:57 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Tony Shadwick Message-Id: <20070302103957.7fd27ef9.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <45E83FB7.1060002@oss-solutions.com> References: <45E3467E.2070000@oss-solutions.com> <200702270345.13194.markus@FreeBSD.org> <45E83FB7.1060002@oss-solutions.com> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: markus@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USB HID Driver help X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:02:33 -0000 On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:16:07 -0600 Tony Shadwick wrote: > Sorry for being slow to respond. I tried doing kldload uhid, and was > told "file already exists", so I take that to presume uhid is getting > loaded at boot, thus perhaps you're right about needing to work around > this. How would you suggest? Or is included via the GENERIC kernel file. So you will need to remove it from your kernel before using the module. > > > Markus Brueffer wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > > > On Monday 26 February 2007 21:43, Tony Shadwick wrote: > >> I'm definitely not a high-end programmer, but I have gone to the trouble > >> of working out the protocol for a USB light gun that is normally used on > >> a Playstation 2 video game console. It has 10 buttons, and can track > >> on-screen location if it has access to the composite sync video signal. > >> > >> http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=60813.0 > >> > >> I've written just a basic parser for the gun. FreeBSD picks up the gun > >> and gives it a ugen character device that I then take continuous input > >> from. The protocol is 6 bytes long repeated pretty much as fast as the > >> gun can send it. > > > > Did you have uhid(4) in the kernel or loaded as module? If not, please try > > loading the module and see if the device gets picked up by it (you need to > > replug it after loading the module). > > > > Judging from the description of the protocol, it seems that the device is a > > regular USB HID device. If it doesn't get picked up by uhid(4), it suffers > > from the same problem as the gamepad of the Xbox360 by not exposing itself as > > being a regular USB HID device and not providing a HID descriptor. Both can > > be worked around but please verify first, that uhid(4) doesn't already > > support the device. Writing an extra driver for this device is not > > neccessary. > > > > Markus > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Tom Rhodes