Thursday, February 14, 2019

Adding entries to the udev hwdb

›
In this blog post, I'll explain how to update systemd's hwdb for a new device-specific entry. I'll focus on input devices, as us...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

High resolution wheel scrolling on Linux v4.21

›
Disclaimer: this is pending for v4.21 and thus not yet in any kernel release. Most wheel mice have a physical feature to stop the wheel ...
4 comments:
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Understanding HID report descriptors

›
This time we're digging into HID - Human Interface Devices and more specifically the protocol your mouse, touchpad, joystick, keyboard...
7 comments:
Monday, December 3, 2018

ggkbdd is a generic gaming keyboard daemon

›
Last week while reviewing a patch I read that some gaming keyboards have two modes - keyboard mode and gaming mode. When in gaming mode, th...
3 comments:
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

What's new in libinput 1.12

›
libinput 1.12 was a massive development effort (over 300 patchsets) with a bunch of new features being merged. It'll be released next we...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

libinput's "new" trackpoint acceleration method

›
This is mostly a request for testing, because I've received zero feedback on the patches that I merged a month ago and libinput 1.12 is...
6 comments:
Thursday, August 9, 2018

How the 60-evdev.hwdb works

›
libinput made a design decision early on to use physical reference points wherever possible. So your virtual buttons are X mm high/across, ...