Re: dinput: Add evdev mouse driver.

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi,
> This is the first fully working implementation of dinput mouse using evdev
> generic input driver. I have enabled this driver by default. If people do
> not have functioning HAL or that for some reasons it can't find the mouse
> device, it will fall-back to current mouse driver.
>
> Use explorer to enumerate all mice devices. Unfortunately msdn says there
> can only be one system pointer device.

I was curious if that patch fixes Empire Earth, so I tried it, but it fails to 
create a new evdev mouse and falls back to the x11 based mouse. It seems that 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DeviceMap\PointerClass does not exist. I've run 
wineprefixcreate and made sure I have full access to /dev/input/*, do I need 
anything else?

dinput: Add evdev mouse driver.

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Hi,
> > This is the first fully working implementation of dinput mouse using evdev
> > generic input driver. I have enabled this driver by default. If people do
> > not have functioning HAL or that for some reasons it can't find the mouse
> > device, it will fall-back to current mouse driver.
> >
> > Use explorer to enumerate all mice devices. Unfortunately msdn says there
> > can only be one system pointer device.
>
> I was curious if that patch fixes Empire Earth, so I tried it, but it fails to 
> create a new evdev mouse and falls back to the x11 based mouse. It seems that 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DeviceMap\PointerClass does not exist. I've run 
> wineprefixcreate and made sure I have full access to /dev/input/*, do I need 
> anything else?

Have you recompiled explorer? If so, what does the following command show?

$ hal-find-by-capability --capability input.mouse

Vitaliy.

dinput: Add evdev mouse driver.

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 14:39:32 schrieb Vitaliy Margolen:
> Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > > This is the first fully working implementation of dinput mouse using
> > > evdev generic input driver. I have enabled this driver by default. If
> > > people do not have functioning HAL or that for some reasons it can't
> > > find the mouse device, it will fall-back to current mouse driver.
> > >
> > > Use explorer to enumerate all mice devices. Unfortunately msdn says
> > > there can only be one system pointer device.
> >
> > I was curious if that patch fixes Empire Earth, so I tried it, but it
> > fails to create a new evdev mouse and falls back to the x11 based mouse.
> > It seems that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DeviceMap\PointerClass does not
> > exist. I've run wineprefixcreate and made sure I have full access to
> > /dev/input/*, do I need anything else?
>
> Have you recompiled explorer? If so, what does the following command show?
>
> $ hal-find-by-capability --capability input.mouse
>
> Vitaliy.

I've discussed that problem with Vitaly on irc, and the issue is that my 
distro(gentoo) doesn't have 32 bit HAL libs. Just as a record for others that 
have the same problem :-)