Tuesday, November 19, 2024

hidreport and hut: two crates for handling HID Report Descriptors and HID Reports

›
A while ago I was looking at Rust-based parsing of HID reports but, surprisingly, outside of C wrappers and the usual cratesquatting I...
Friday, October 4, 2024

HIOCREVOKE merged for kernel 6.12

›
TLDR: if you know what EVIOCREVOKE does, the same now works for hidraw devices via HIDIOCREVOKE . The HID standard is the most comm...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

GNOME tablet support papercut fixes

›
Over the last months I've started looking into a few of the papercuts that affects graphics tablet users in GNOME. So now that most o...
3 comments:
Thursday, June 6, 2024

goodbye xsetwacom, hello gsetwacom

›
Back in the day when presumably at least someone was young, the venerable xsetwacom tool was commonly used to configure wacom tablets dev...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

libwacom and Huion/Gaomon devices

›
TLDR: Thanks to José Exposito, libwacom 2.12 will support all [1] Huion and Gaomon devices when running on a 6.10 kernel. libwacom, now...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

udev-hid-bpf: quickstart tooling to fix your HID devices with eBPF

›
For the last few months, Benjamin Tissoires and I have been working on and polishing a little tool called udev-hid-bpf [1]. This is the ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Enforcing a touchscreen mapping in GNOME

›
Touchscreens are quite prevalent by now but one of the not-so-hidden secrets is that they're actually two devices: the monitor and th...