I recently bought a presenter with laser pointer (August LP205R), but it doesn't seem to work with Ubuntu 14.04. The remote control seems to work, as the little receiver flashes whenever I press one of the buttons, but the presentation (pdf in presentation mode) doesn't react. Any ideas?
xinput:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ RF 2.4G RF 2.4G id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HD WebCam id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Acer WMI hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ RF 2.4G RF 2.4G id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 009: ID 1d57:83ed Xenta
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0489:e04e Foxconn / Hon Hai
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b3d6 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
The Xenta entry goes away when I remove the USB-device. Nothing seems to change in the output of xinput.
xev:
KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
root 0xbd, subw 0x0, time 7322246, (-153,412), root:(634,464),
state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
root 0xbd, subw 0x0, time 7322478, (-153,412), root:(634,464),
state 0x11, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
The slide left/slide right buttons don't provoke any reaction, neither does the screen on/ screen off, this one should turn powerpoint on and off, I think.
xinput– 0x2b3bfa0 Apr 06 '15 at 12:34lsusbtoo, please? – David Foerster Apr 06 '15 at 13:53xevand then press sequentially all the buttons of the presenter and update your post with the output if any? The entries of the presenter inxinputseems to be15and16(both calledRF 2.4G RF 2.4G) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196793 – 0x2b3bfa0 Apr 07 '15 at 14:11wget 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/keytouch/getscancodes/getscancodes%201.0/getscancodes-1.0.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fkeytouch.sourceforge.net%2Fdl-getscancodes.php&ts=1412723944&use_mirror=kent' -O getscancodes-1.0.tar.gzand thentar -xvzf getscancodes-1.0.tar.gzand thencd getscancodes/and thenmake– 0x2b3bfa0 Apr 09 '15 at 08:17sudo ./getscancodes /dev/input/event16thensudo ./getscancodes /dev/input/event15pressing all the buttons sequentially during both commands, and post the output of both. (please include the button you pressed in each line of output) – 0x2b3bfa0 Apr 09 '15 at 08:19dmesg | tail, running it after pressing all the buttons. Remove any sensitive info on the output. – 0x2b3bfa0 Apr 14 '15 at 09:22