Questions tagged [input-devices]
a device that one can use to feed data into the PC; eg a mouse, keyboard, scanner, IR receiver
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Disabling Touch-to-Click when TrackPad Appears as PS/2 Generic Mouse
I have a Vostro 3560 with Ubuntu 13.10.
I want to disable my touchpad's touch-to-click ability.
gpointing-device-settings
shows my trackpad as a PS/2 Generic Mouse so it's not very helpful.
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Wacom Bamboo CTH-300 not recognized Ubuntu 14.04
I recently got the Wacom Bamboo tablet (CTH-300) and, obviously, I wanted to try it out!
So, I plugged it in...and nothing happened. I tried changing USB ports - nothing.
I checked out the Wacom ...
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Apply LADSPA plugin to input (microphone)
Similar to How can I apply a LADSPA plugin to a PulseAudio stream?, but I'm trying to apply the plugins to my source, not a sink. Basically, I want other people to hear my voice with plugins applied ...
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No user input after upgrading to ubuntu 14.10 with linux kernel 3.16
After upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10, I am no longer able to use my keyboard and mouse to do anything. I can't even get to a tty terminal. All I can do is stare at the login screen, or do a hard ...
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My trackpad stopped working (not detected) after update, how do I fix this?
I updated my laptop (Dell 'XPS 13 Developer Edition', aka 'Sputnik', the one that comes preinstalled with Ubuntu) to 14.10. Upon reboot my trackpad didn't work. Keyboard, touchscreen and everything ...
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Remap buttons on secondary device
I've seen a number of discussions that are similar to this issue but I haven't yet been able to get this working.
I recently broke my left pinky finger pretty badly. I got the Fragpedal Quad and am ...
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How to know where in /dev/ is a USB keyboard loaded?
To be precise, when you plug in a USB storage device, it is loaded in sd something, but where is a usb keyboard loaded in /dev/?
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Disable mouse wheel doubleclick
My mouse's wheel sometimes doubleclicks instead of single click. Looks like hardware issue.
How can I prevent sending another wheel click for one second for example?
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Operate Genius ColorPage-Vivied 1200xe on Ubuntu14.04 LTS
I can not install the scanner Genius ColorPage-Vivied 1200XE on Ubuntu 14.04LTS, the scanner utilities can not recognize the device
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Audio input prompt not updated
I am currently running 14.04 on a dell xps 13. I have installed some of the drivers from the driver support pack. However, these drivers were created for 12.04. The problem I am getting is that the ...
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How to remap keys on one keyboard only?
I know I can use xinput to remap mouse buttons on only one mouse but leave others unchanged. This is very useful. In my case, I use it to connect two mice to my desktop, one right-handed and the other ...
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Get keyboard input without requiring root and without x11
I'm trying to capture keyboard input in a C/C++ program without requiring root privileges and without the use of X11 XNextEvent().
I've tried to open the device directly, but for obvious security ...
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USB devices don't work after installation of Ubuntu 14.04
I've installed Lubuntu 14.04 with USB mouse/keyboard and USB key with no problem.
After installation, I had no mouse, no keyboard, no access to USB key and no network.
I plug a PS2 keyboard for the ...
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Get keyboard scancodes in Ubuntu 13.10
I'm trying to find out the scancodes for a set of foot pedals so that I can rebind them to more useful keys. In older versions of Ubuntu I was able to do this using /lib/udev/keymap as discussed here, ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 mouse not working but detected
I have a Razer Imperator mouse that used to work just fine until yesterday.
lsusb, xinput and dmesg all correctly list the mouse, but yet it doesn't work.
Can anyone give some tips on how to debug ...
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My ps3 controller stopped working 2 days ago
I used to use my ps3 controller to play games, and a couple of days ago it stopped working. I get this message during boot up (after BIOS):
[ (some numers)] sony 0003.054c.(more numbers): can't set ...
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digital tablet which is capable of giving input to my applet?
I have java project , which is currently developing and will be deployed in ubuntu only. Here i need a digital tablet which is having both mouse and pen, which is capable of giving input to my applet ...
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writing to an USB optical mouse
On the internet I find a lot of examples of people reading from the /dev/input/mouseX device the dX, dY and status byte from an USB optical mouse.
From some research I found out that such an USB ...
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What happened to my midi device files?
I've been working on a personal project which involves parsing a binary stream of midi data from a controller. The way I had been doing it was reading from /dev/dmmidi1. Over the weekend I upgraded ...
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How do I get Wacom Tablet drivers to initiate with new Intuos Pro series?
Just as the question says.
This issue happens under Ubuntu 13.x (and also Linux Mint). When Wacom decided to re-release their Wacom Intuos Pro series, the current linux-wacom drivers were no good, so ...
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how to configure a trackpoint only mode on thinkpads with clickpads
I own a Thinkpad carbon X1 gen2 notebook with the new touchpad (clickpad). The same clickpad seems to be used in the T440 and W540 models as well. I would like to turn off the touchpad but still be ...
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After upgrade I cannot type in any windows
I run Ubuntu 13.10 on a 64 bits machine. Last Friday I had an automatic update.
After that I cannot type in any window, terminal, Gedit, Firefox... but I can navigate my files in File Explorer using ...
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Is there a way to activate Network Tablet on Ubuntu?
I have the android app called GfxTablet and I only have one program (GIMP) that the app can give input on GIMP. Based on the site [1], it says that can work with any Linux program on the computer. ...
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Are there any wired (gaming) controllers that "just work" or natively support Linux/Ubuntu?
Pretty much as the title suggests, are there any wired (gaming) controllers that "just work" or natively support Ubuntu "out-of-the-box"?
Having spent plenty of time fighting (ongoing) battles with ...
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How can I identify which device/keycode is being used?
I am trying to reassign the functions on the buttons of my Logitech G700 mouse. Using xinput --list, I see that this counts as two devices (four if you include the wired/wireless differences).
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What's the mounted path for sound device?
As the title?
In red hat sound device is mounted at /dev/dsp. How about ubuntu?
Regards,
Hua Jie
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changing device with v4l2-ctl is not working
I have a WinTV HVR 1900 TV tuner runnning on Ubuntu 13.10, from which I would like to capture S-VIDEO input. The device is supported, based on LinuxTV. As is written here, it seems that that kind of ...
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Wacom Bamboo CTH-300 issues
I am running Ubuntu 13.10 and am having issues with my Wacom Bamboo model CTH-300. The built in GUI to configure Wacom input devices doesn't recognize my Bamboo tablet at all.
When I issue - dmesg | ...
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ps3 bluetooth remote connected as linux input device has only one event type on 13.10
I'm trying to setup my Harmony Smart Control as a PS3 Bluetooth Remote Control (it pretends to be this remote) under Ubuntu 13.10 (latest kernel and updates installed). My bluetooth dongle wouldn't ...
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How to make resume script wait for ivtv initialization
I have a TV tuner card with an infrared sensor. I have made a script to remove/start ivtv kernel module and shutdown/restart lirc service on suspend/resume.
The problem is that the lirc service start ...
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remapping shift key and bash script startup problem
My keyboard both shift key malfunctioned, my OS is Ubuntu 13.04. So I am using one of the control key as shift key. I did this using xkeycaps tool, and that's working fine and I need to do this ...
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Wacom CTH480 not working on Ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]
I have recently bought a Wacom CTH480 (Intuos pen and touch small) (I am using Ubuntu 13.04 --64 bit)
The Wacom Graphics Tablet application present under System Settings is showing "No Tablet ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Magic Mouse connected and paired but not working
I have a problem with Magic Mouse. It was working for a time, but after I updated the system it won't work. It connects fine, pairs, the green light on the mouse lights up, and Blueman says it's ...
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How to emulate XInput device with DirectInput gamepad?
I'm trying to get a Logitech Dual Action controller to work with Bastion, on Ubuntu 13.04. From what I've gathered, Bastion is only compatible with XInput devices, and my controller only supports ...
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Touchpad doesn't work on Fujitsu Lifebook UH552
Recently I bought the laptop with pre-installed Win8 and tried to insall Ubuntu 13.04 beside it.
I have to say, that the installation was fine, but then some strange things began to happen: first ...
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mouse sometimes doubleclicks when i click once
I have a problem which is becoming a nightmare, to the extent that I am thinking that it might be easier to just scrap Ubuntu completely and try something else. I have an HP PC running Ubuntu 12.04. ...
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World of Warcraft Cataclysm MMO Gaming Mouse (SteelSeries) not functioning, any way to sort this?
Pretty new to Ubuntu and Linux for home use as a whole, anything I've done in the past has been simple server work so I've never had to deal with troubleshooting my own hardware before, anyway.
I ...
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Make a USB device show up as an input and output device
What am I attempting to do?
I am trying to make my Line6 Toneport UX1 (hooked up via USB) an output and input device at the same time.
Why am I trying to do this?
For those of you that don't know, ...
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Touchpad recognized as generic ps/2 mouse on a Dell Inspiron 13z 5323
After installing Ubuntu my touchpad has basic functionality but no edge scrolling, multitouch, or any advanced features. Xinput list shows it as a generic ps/2 mouse:
⎡ Virtual core pointer ...
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Why does bluetooth connect but not transmit any audio?
It connects, but then I don't get any audio in Pulse Audio or in Steam's mic settings. I don't understand why this is so hard. I can get it to work on my PS3 or mac with no trouble. I have a ...
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Can't set synaptics "TapButton" options in 12.04 LTS
I have recently upgraded my netbook from Ubuntu 11.04 to 12.04 LTS. Since the upgrade - in fact, possibly since the upgrade to 11.10 - the system no longer registers touchpad taps as mouse clicks (...
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Pressure Sensitivity with Wacom Bamboo in Inkscape 0.48
The pressure sensitivity for my Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch in Inkscape 0.48 (running Ubuntu 12.04) does not work.
I ticked all options in Input Devices (Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen stylus; Wacom ...
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How can I use my TP-LINK TL-WN7200ND?
I purchased a USB wireless adapter TP-LINK TL-WN7200ND, which uses a Ralink RT3070 chipset. Right now I'm using Ubuntu 12.10.
It detects the adapter as Ralink, but when I try to use it, it doesn't ...
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How do I disable double-click drag in Ubuntu?
I can find an option in the mouse settings to bring the drag and drop time threshold to very small, which helps with accidental events, but I can't find an option to disable it all together.
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System apparently doesn't recognize USB microphone input
I purchased an Audio Technica USB microphone a while ago, but my system doesn't recognise input into it.
When I plug it in and open Audacity, I see the microphone input options (such as 'ATR USB ...
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How to differentiate barcode scanner data from regular keyboard input?
I am looking forward to buy a barcode scanner for a project. This project is a web application running as a web server on the local computer, and a browser on that same machine for the client-side. ...
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binding back/forward to mouse buttons
I have a basic logitech mouse with 5 buttons: left, right, wheel left, wheel, wheel right.
I used to use wheel left and right for going back and forward in my browser or navigator. Now this doesn't ...
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QinHeng CH345 USB MIDI device not showing up in lsusb
I have a USB MIDI cable which shows up on connect in the kernel messages as:
usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 12 using dwc_otg
yet, somehow in lsusb this device does not show up:
Bus 001 ...
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lsusb - where device description comes from
For one of my attached USB devices (2773:0104) I see no description in lsusb command output:
user@Thinkpad-Laptop:~/binaries$ lsusb
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0a5c:217f Broadcom Corp.
Bus 008 Device 001:...
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How to simulate a USB plug?
I have an app that implements some automations when an USB key is plugged.
While developing, I have to test it in a specific environment (derivative from Debian Squeeze).
The app subscribe to HAL ...