Griffin Powermate evdev setup

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Phil Endecott wrote:
>Peter Hutterer wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:09:17AM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote:
>>> 	Option		"DIALRelativeAxisButtons" "4 5"
>>
>> This option isn't supported anymore.
>
>OK.  I think something like this is needed, though.  If you have an
>application that actually "knows" about the dial axis that's fine, but
>in most cases you'll want to do some sort of mapping.  I don't see any
>mention of the mouse scroll wheel in the new evdev man page; how is
>that managed?
>
>The old driver was ugly (bitmasks etc) but useful.  I hope the new
>version hasn't "thrown the baby out with the bath water".
>
If they have, there are going to be some unhappy folks who run milling 
machines with the griffin and find them at least as handy as bottled beer.

>> As Dan said, the device doesn't advertise a known combination of axes +
>> buttons. Please run http://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/evtest.c against
>> the device file and attach the output to a bug on bugs.freedesktop.org.
>
>Here's the output, also filed as
>http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21457 :
>
>Input driver version is 1.0.0
>Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x77d product 0x410 version 0x400
>Input device name: "Griffin PowerMate"
>Supported events:
>   Event type 0 (Sync)
>   Event type 1 (Key)
>     Event code 256 (Btn0)
>   Event type 2 (Relative)
>     Event code 7 (Dial)
>   Event type 4 (Misc)
>     Event code 1 (Pulseled)
>Grab succeeded, ungrabbing.
>Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
>Event: time 1240909108.341856, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value -1
>Event: time 1240909108.341878, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909108.773822, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value -1
>Event: time 1240909108.773838, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909109.029820, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value -1
>Event: time 1240909109.029836, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909109.149823, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value -1
>Event: time 1240909109.149839, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909109.357821, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value 1
>Event: time 1240909109.357837, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909109.445820, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value -1
>Event: time 1240909109.445837, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909109.509826, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value -1
>Event: time 1240909109.509843, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909109.565820, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value -1
>Event: time 1240909109.565836, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909109.629825, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value -1
>Event: time 1240909109.629841, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909110.213829, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value 1
>Event: time 1240909110.213844, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909110.253823, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value 1
>Event: time 1240909110.253839, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909110.309823, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value 1
>Event: time 1240909110.309839, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909110.381825, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value 1
>Event: time 1240909110.381842, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909110.485828, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value 1
>Event: time 1240909110.485845, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909110.573827, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value 1
>Event: time 1240909110.573842, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909110.653830, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value 1
>Event: time 1240909110.653847, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909112.125830, type 1 (Key), code 256 (Btn0), value 1
>Event: time 1240909112.125847, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909112.381823, type 1 (Key), code 256 (Btn0), value 0
>Event: time 1240909112.381838, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909112.789830, type 2 (Relative), code 7 (Dial), value 1
>Event: time 1240909112.789845, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909112.893831, type 1 (Key), code 256 (Btn0), value 1
>Event: time 1240909112.893848, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>Event: time 1240909113.141823, type 1 (Key), code 256 (Btn0), value 0
>Event: time 1240909113.141838, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>
>
>Thanks,  Phil.
>
>
>
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