Setting sensitivity of USB Keyboard with Trackpoint

Many thanks for that some kind guys developed the patches for setting the sensitivity of USB Keyboard with Trackpoint. I can move the cursor easily by the trackpoint.

Refer to the following site, the sensitivity can be set easily by using userspace USB functions.

https://github.com/bseibold/tpkbdctl

Alternatively, the sensitivity can be set by Python directly.

首先要 emerge pyusb

然後透過下列指令找到裝置，確定 idVendor=0x17ef, idProduct=0x6009 符合，最末一碼為 0 是鍵盤，1 是trackpoint。

# ls /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/1-1.5:1.1

在此目錄下會有一個檔名為 0003:17EF:6009.0004

執行下列指令改變 sensitivity

# echo 1-1.5:1.1 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/unbind

# python trackpoint-script.py

# echo 1-1.5:1.1 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/bind

trackpoint-script.py 內容如下

#pyusb imports

import usb.core

import usb.util

data = [0x4, 0x6a, 0x3, 0xfc, 0x38]

dev = usb.core.find(idVendor=0x17ef, idProduct=0x6009)

dev.ctrl_transfer(0x21, 0x9, 0x304, 0x1, data)

另外，下面的一些資料，可以做為進一步的參考。

Just for anyone not immediately recognizing the usb_control_msg()

parameters:

0x21 == USB_DIR_OUT | USB_TYPE_CLASS | USB_RECIP_INTERFACE

0x9 == HID_REQ_SET_REPORT (assuming the interface class is HID)

0x304 == report_type + 1 << 8 | report_id

0x1 == interface number