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Re: evrouter replacement
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:48:53 -0700
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Sturgis, Grant
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> Hey folks,
>
> It looks like we are migrating to SL6 as the demise of CentOS is imminent.

Good luck with the migration.  :-)

> We have one user that uses a Griffons Powermate.  It’s kind of a dial used
> as a fancy input device.  Anyway – back in the RH9 days, we would use a
> program called evrouter to interpret input signals for X11, well that
> project died back in 2006 (I believe).
>
> So, with SL6 – we plug in the Powermate and the kernel module gets loaded
> correctly.  However, I see no user space tools for configuring this input
> device.
>
> Any ideas on where to go from here?
>
> PS – the Powermate is used in crystallography applications.

Never used it so this is a shot in the dark:

http://www.sowerbutts.com/powermate/

might provide the info you are looking for.

Akemi

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