USB Human Interface Device support

[Christopher]

I have a flight sim, PhoenixRC, which I'd like to get working under 
Wine. As of a couple months ago most of the DirectX problems have been 
fixed, but the game uses a USB adapter to connect various controllers to 
the computer. The USB adapter is an HID and is recognized by Linux; 
however I can't get it to work through Wine. At least part of the 
problem seems to be that SetupDiGetClassDevs calls 
SETUPDI_EnumerateInterfaces which tries to open registry keys that don't 
exist. There isn't an entry in 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses for 
HID interfaces, in fact that whole set of registry keys seems to be 
missing. Is anyone working on patches to make this work, or can someone 
point me to the function(s) that need to be implemented for HIDs to be 
setup in the registry correctly? I'm not sure when/how those keys are 
suppose to be created.
Thanks,
Christopher Berner

[Juan Lang]

Hi Christopher,
> There isn't an entry in
>  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses for
>  HID interfaces, in fact that whole set of registry keys seems to be
>  missing. Is anyone working on patches to make this work, or can someone
>  point me to the function(s) that need to be implemented for HIDs to be
>  setup in the registry correctly? I'm not sure when/how those keys are
>  suppose to be created.

Those should be created by explorer; see hal.c.  No one's working on
this that I know of.
--Juan

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hello Luang,

2008/3/25, Juan Lang :
> > There isn't an entry in
> >  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses for
> >  HID interfaces, in fact that whole set of registry keys seems to be
> >  missing. Is anyone working on patches to make this work, or can someone
> >  point me to the function(s) that need to be implemented for HIDs to be
> >  setup in the registry correctly? I'm not sure when/how those keys are
> >  suppose to be created.
>
> Those should be created by explorer; see hal.c.  No one's working on
>  this that I know of.

I have been working on hal, but it's mostly moving everything to
mountmgr so I can get ipods (except iphone/ipod touch) working, if you
populate control\deviceclasses and control\enum a hid device is
'added'. Just copy those keys from a windows installation.

Cheers,
Maarten.

[Christopher]

Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> Hello Luang,
>
> 2008/3/25, Juan Lang :
> > > There isn't an entry in
> > >  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses for
> > >  HID interfaces, in fact that whole set of registry keys seems to be
> > >  missing. Is anyone working on patches to make this work, or can someone
> > >  point me to the function(s) that need to be implemented for HIDs to be
> > >  setup in the registry correctly? I'm not sure when/how those keys are
> > >  suppose to be created.
> >
> > Those should be created by explorer; see hal.c.  No one's working on
> >  this that I know of.
>
> I have been working on hal, but it's mostly moving everything to
> mountmgr so I can get ipods (except iphone/ipod touch) working, if you
> populate control\deviceclasses and control\enum a hid device is
> 'added'. Just copy those keys from a windows installation.
>
> Cheers,
> Maarten.

Thanks! SetupDiGetClassDevs and GetDeviceInterfaceData seem to work now, 
but GetDeviceInterfaceDetailData causes several errors. I'll look into 
it now that I have somewhere concrete to start.
Christopher

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hello Christopher,

2008/3/25, Christopher :
> Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > Hello Luang,
> >
> > 2008/3/25, Juan Lang :
> > > > There isn't an entry in
> > > >  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses for
> > > >  HID interfaces, in fact that whole set of registry keys seems to be
> > > >  missing. Is anyone working on patches to make this work, or can someone
> > > >  point me to the function(s) that need to be implemented for HIDs to be
> > > >  setup in the registry correctly? I'm not sure when/how those keys are
> > > >  suppose to be created.
> > >
> > > Those should be created by explorer; see hal.c.  No one's working on
> > >  this that I know of.
> >
> > I have been working on hal, but it's mostly moving everything to
> > mountmgr so I can get ipods (except iphone/ipod touch) working, if you
> > populate control\deviceclasses and control\enum a hid device is
> > 'added'. Just copy those keys from a windows installation.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Maarten.
>
> Thanks! SetupDiGetClassDevs and GetDeviceInterfaceData seem to work now,
>  but GetDeviceInterfaceDetaiData causes several errors. I'll look into
>  it now that I have somewhere concrete to start.

It probably asks for the specific keys in
\ENUM\category\devicename\idname so if you copy these over it will
probably work. WINEDEBUG=+setupapi is your friend.

Cheers,
Maarten.

[Christopher]

Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> It probably asks for the specific keys in
> \ENUM\category\devicename\idname so if you copy these over it will
> probably work. WINEDEBUG=+setupapi is your friend.
>
> Cheers,
> Maarten.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that, and now that some page fault 
bugs are fixed it gets a little further. However looking at the 
+setupapi,+hid traces there are a whole bunch of calls to 
SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces and SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceDetailA, but 
after that nothing and the controller still isn't detected by PhoenixRC. 
Anyone have a suggest as to what I should look into next? I've tried 
transferring both the deviceclasses regkey for HID, and the enum regkeys 
for HID.

Thanks,
Christopher