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Asciidoc manpage instead of nroff, add manpage for evtest-capture. asciidoc has the huge advantage of being human-readable. The generation of the actual manpage is somewhat complicated, but one can link straight to the evtest.txt file in cgit instead of being blamed for bleeding eyes when users look at nroff source. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2009-11-23 12:32:47 +00:00
EVTEST(1)
=========
NAME
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evtest - Input device event monitor
SYNOPSIS
--------
evtest "/dev/input/eventX"
DESCRIPTION
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Add evtest.c and build system. This program is being used everywhere already anyway, but most sources refer to the c file directly. Debian has it as part of the joystick package. Keep it in git somewhere so at least I don't lose it. Man page taken from the Ubuntu joystick package. autotools seems a bit of overkill for evtest, but... Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2009-10-21 01:05:47 +00:00
evtest displays information on the input device specified on the command
line, including all the events supported by the device. It then monitors the
device and displays all the events layer events generated.
evtest needs to be able to read from the device; in most cases this means it
must be run as root.
evtest is commonly used to debug issues with input devices in X.Org. The
output of evtest shows the information presented by the kernel; based on
this information it can be determined whether a bug may be a kernel or an
X.Org issue.
Asciidoc manpage instead of nroff, add manpage for evtest-capture. asciidoc has the huge advantage of being human-readable. The generation of the actual manpage is somewhat complicated, but one can link straight to the evtest.txt file in cgit instead of being blamed for bleeding eyes when users look at nroff source. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2009-11-23 12:32:47 +00:00
DIAGNOSTICS
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Add evtest.c and build system. This program is being used everywhere already anyway, but most sources refer to the c file directly. Debian has it as part of the joystick package. Keep it in git somewhere so at least I don't lose it. Man page taken from the Ubuntu joystick package. autotools seems a bit of overkill for evtest, but... Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2009-10-21 01:05:47 +00:00
If evtest does not show any events even though the device is being used, the
device may be grabbed by a process (EVIOCGRAB). This is usually the case
when debugging a synaptics device from within X. VT switching to a TTY or
shutting down the X server terminates this grab and synaptics devices can be
debugged.
Asciidoc manpage instead of nroff, add manpage for evtest-capture. asciidoc has the huge advantage of being human-readable. The generation of the actual manpage is somewhat complicated, but one can link straight to the evtest.txt file in cgit instead of being blamed for bleeding eyes when users look at nroff source. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2009-11-23 12:32:47 +00:00
SEE ALSO
--------
inputattach(1)
AUTHOR
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evtest was written by Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>.
Add evtest.c and build system. This program is being used everywhere already anyway, but most sources refer to the c file directly. Debian has it as part of the joystick package. Keep it in git somewhere so at least I don't lose it. Man page taken from the Ubuntu joystick package. autotools seems a bit of overkill for evtest, but... Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2009-10-21 01:05:47 +00:00
This manual page was written by Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>, based on that
Asciidoc manpage instead of nroff, add manpage for evtest-capture. asciidoc has the huge advantage of being human-readable. The generation of the actual manpage is somewhat complicated, but one can link straight to the evtest.txt file in cgit instead of being blamed for bleeding eyes when users look at nroff source. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2009-11-23 12:32:47 +00:00
present in the lineakd package, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be
used by others).
Add evtest.c and build system. This program is being used everywhere already anyway, but most sources refer to the c file directly. Debian has it as part of the joystick package. Keep it in git somewhere so at least I don't lose it. Man page taken from the Ubuntu joystick package. autotools seems a bit of overkill for evtest, but... Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
2009-10-21 01:05:47 +00:00