/dev/hiddev0

[Clint Savage]

On Nov 11, 2007 1:47 PM, Andrew Jorgensen <andrew.jorgensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My sister-in-law, who's using Ubuntu 7.10, is doing medical
> transcription.  They have this USB pedal they use to control a program
> that plays back the audio.  The device is a standard USB HID Joystick
> device that happens to only have three buttons.  The company that
> makes the software she's supposed to use has a linux version.  This
> software looks for a pedal at /dev/hiddev*.  Ubuntu creates an input
> device, /dev/input/js0, which not only isn't in the right place but is
> an input device rather than a hiddev device.
>
> Is there some way I can get a hiddev device out of this thing?  I
> imagine the answer involves udev somehow but I'm lost as to how to get
> it to create a device that accepts the HID ioctls.
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andrew Jorgensen

Andrew,

I suppose that mknod woudn't work?  I am guessing that it has a major
and a minor number, you could easily create the correct device

Cheers,

Clint