Bug 98469 - Microsoft Sculpt devices not handled
Summary: Microsoft Sculpt devices not handled
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: upower
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Richard Hughes
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Reported: 2016-10-28 12:58 UTC by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2017-09-08 14:03 UTC (History)
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Description Pierre Ossman 2016-10-28 12:58:41 UTC
Basically as the summary says, the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard and mouse combo isn't handled. No idea if it is proprietary of follows a standard protocol.
There are three devices (keyboard, numpad and mouse) with one receiver.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2017-09-08 14:03:09 UTC
(In reply to Pierre Ossman from comment #0)
> Basically as the summary says, the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard and
> mouse combo isn't handled. No idea if it is proprietary of follows a
> standard protocol.
> There are three devices (keyboard, numpad and mouse) with one receiver.

Looks like this uses a proprietary protocol and dongle to carry over all the data. This means that the power information is probably carried over in a non-standard way in the USB data.

As we're unlikely to add support for this particular device in user-space, your best bet is to contact the linux-input@ mailing-list with the output of "hid-recorder" for the device.

I'd recommend also checking the power level in Windows as fast as possible after the capture, so you can tell which value (roughly) is expected to be found in the USB protocol.

They *might* be able to help you out and cook out a patch if it ends being fairly trivial.


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