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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/sysmouse.4 267938 2014-06-26 21:46:14Z bapt $ .\" .Dd March 25, 2014 .Dt SYSMOUSE 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm sysmouse .\" .Nd supplies mouse data from syscons for other applications .Nd virtualized mouse driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .In sys/mouse.h .In sys/consio.h .Sh DESCRIPTION The console driver, in conjunction with the mouse daemon .Xr moused 8 , supplies mouse data to the user process in the standardized way via the .Nm driver. This arrangement makes it possible for the console and the user process (such as the .Tn X\ Window System ) to share the mouse. .Pp The user process which wants to utilize mouse operation simply opens .Pa /dev/sysmouse with a .Xr open 2 call and reads mouse data from the device via .Xr read 2 . Make sure that .Xr moused 8 is running, otherwise the user process will not see any data coming from the mouse. .Pp .Ss Operation Levels The .Nm driver has two levels of operation. The current operation level can be referred to and changed via ioctl calls. .Pp The level zero, the basic level, is the lowest level at which the driver offers the basic service to user programs. The .Nm driver provides horizontal and vertical movement of the mouse and state of up to three buttons in the .Tn MouseSystems format as follows. .Pp .Bl -tag -width Byte_1 -compact .It Byte 1 .Bl -tag -width bit_7 -compact .It bit 7 Always one. .It bit 6..3 Always zero. .It bit 2 Left button status; cleared if pressed, otherwise set. .It bit 1 Middle button status; cleared if pressed, otherwise set. Always one, if the device does not have the middle button. .It bit 0 Right button status; cleared if pressed, otherwise set. .El .It Byte 2 The first half of horizontal movement count in two's complement; \-128 through 127. .It Byte 3 The first half of vertical movement count in two's complement; \-128 through 127. .It Byte 4 The second half of the horizontal movement count in two's complement; \-128 through 127. To obtain the full horizontal movement count, add the byte 2 and 4. .It Byte 5 The second half of the vertical movement count in two's complement; \-128 through 127. To obtain the full vertical movement count, add the byte 3 and 5. .El .Pp At the level one, the extended level, mouse data is encoded in the standard format .Dv MOUSE_PROTO_SYSMOUSE as defined in .Xr mouse 4 . .\" .Ss Acceleration .\" The .\" .Nm .\" driver can somewhat `accelerate' the movement of the pointing device. .\" The faster you move the device, the further the pointer .\" travels on the screen. .\" The driver has an internal variable which governs the effect of .\" the acceleration. Its value can be modified via the driver flag .\" or via an ioctl call. .Sh IOCTLS This section describes two classes of .Xr ioctl 2 commands: commands for the .Nm driver itself, and commands for the console and the console control drivers. .Ss Sysmouse Ioctls There are a few commands for mouse drivers. General description of the commands is given in .Xr mouse 4 . Following are the features specific to the .Nm driver. .Pp .Bl -tag -width MOUSE -compact .It Dv MOUSE_GETLEVEL Ar int *level .It Dv MOUSE_SETLEVEL Ar int *level These commands manipulate the operation level of the mouse driver. .Pp .It Dv MOUSE_GETHWINFO Ar mousehw_t *hw Returns the hardware information of the attached device in the following structure. Only the .Va iftype field is guaranteed to be filled with the correct value in the current version of the .Nm driver. .Bd -literal typedef struct mousehw { int buttons; /* number of buttons */ int iftype; /* I/F type */ int type; /* mouse/track ball/pad... */ int model; /* I/F dependent model ID */ int hwid; /* I/F dependent hardware ID */ } mousehw_t; .Ed .Pp The .Va buttons field holds the number of buttons detected by the driver. .Pp The .Va iftype is always .Dv MOUSE_IF_SYSMOUSE . .Pp The .Va type tells the device type: .Dv MOUSE_MOUSE , .Dv MOUSE_TRACKBALL , .Dv MOUSE_STICK , .Dv MOUSE_PAD , or .Dv MOUSE_UNKNOWN . .Pp The .Va model is always .Dv MOUSE_MODEL_GENERIC at the operation level 0. It may be .Dv MOUSE_MODEL_GENERIC or one of .Dv MOUSE_MODEL_XXX constants at higher operation levels. .Pp The .Va hwid is always zero. .Pp .It Dv MOUSE_GETMODE Ar mousemode_t *mode The command gets the current operation parameters of the mouse driver. .Bd -literal typedef struct mousemode { int protocol; /* MOUSE_PROTO_XXX */ int rate; /* report rate (per sec) */ int resolution; /* MOUSE_RES_XXX, -1 if unknown */ int accelfactor; /* acceleration factor */ int level; /* driver operation level */ int packetsize; /* the length of the data packet */ unsigned char syncmask[2]; /* sync. bits */ } mousemode_t; .Ed .Pp The .Va protocol field tells the format in which the device status is returned when the mouse data is read by the user program. It is .Dv MOUSE_PROTO_MSC at the operation level zero. .Dv MOUSE_PROTO_SYSMOUSE at the operation level one. .Pp The .Va rate is always set to \-1. .Pp The .Va resolution is always set to \-1. .Pp The .Va accelfactor is always 0. .Pp The .Va packetsize field specifies the length of the data packet. It depends on the operation level. .Pp .Bl -tag -width level_0__ -compact .It Em level 0 5 bytes .It Em level 1 8 bytes .El .Pp The array .Va syncmask holds a bit mask and pattern to detect the first byte of the data packet. .Va syncmask[0] is the bit mask to be ANDed with a byte. If the result is equal to .Va syncmask[1] , the byte is likely to be the first byte of the data packet. Note that this method of detecting the first byte is not 100% reliable; thus, it should be taken only as an advisory measure. .Pp .It Dv MOUSE_SETMODE Ar mousemode_t *mode The command changes the current operation parameters of the mouse driver as specified in .Ar mode . Only .Va level may be modifiable. Setting values in the other field does not generate error and has no effect. .\" .Pp .\" .It Dv MOUSE_GETVARS Ar mousevar_t *vars .\" .It Dv MOUSE_SETVARS Ar mousevar_t *vars .\" These commands are not supported by the .\" .Nm .\" driver. .Pp .It Dv MOUSE_READDATA Ar mousedata_t *data .It Dv MOUSE_READSTATE Ar mousedata_t *state These commands are not supported by the .Nm driver. .Pp .It Dv MOUSE_GETSTATUS Ar mousestatus_t *status The command returns the current state of buttons and movement counts in the structure as defined in .Xr mouse 4 . .El .Ss Console and Consolectl Ioctls The user process issues console .Fn ioctl calls to the current virtual console in order to control the mouse pointer. The console .Fn ioctl also provides a method for the user process to receive a .Xr signal 3 when a button is pressed. .Pp The mouse daemon .Xr moused 8 uses .Fn ioctl calls to the console control device .Pa /dev/consolectl to inform the console of mouse actions including mouse movement and button status. .Pp Both classes of .Fn ioctl commands are defined as .Dv CONS_MOUSECTL which takes the following argument. .Bd -literal struct mouse_info { int operation; union { struct mouse_data data; struct mouse_mode mode; struct mouse_event event; } u; }; .Ed .Pp .Bl -tag -width operation -compact .It Va operation This can be one of .Pp .Bl -tag -width MOUSE_MOVEABS -compact .It Dv MOUSE_SHOW Enables and displays mouse cursor. .It Dv MOUSE_HIDE Disables and hides mouse cursor. .It Dv MOUSE_MOVEABS Moves mouse cursor to position supplied in .Va u.data . .It Dv MOUSE_MOVEREL Adds position supplied in .Va u.data to current position. .It Dv MOUSE_GETINFO Returns current mouse position in the current virtual console and button status in .Va u.data . .It Dv MOUSE_MODE This sets the .Xr signal 3 to be delivered to the current process when a button is pressed. The signal to be delivered is set in .Va u.mode . .El .Pp The above operations are for virtual consoles. The operations defined below are for the console control device and are used by .Xr moused 8 to pass mouse data to the console driver. .Pp .Bl -tag -width MOUSE_MOVEABS -compact .It Dv MOUSE_ACTION .It Dv MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT These operations take the information in .Va u.data and act upon it. Mouse data will be sent to the .Nm driver if it is open. .Dv MOUSE_ACTION also processes button press actions and sends signal to the process if requested or performs cut and paste operations if the current console is a text interface. .It Dv MOUSE_BUTTON_EVENT .Va u.data specifies a button and its click count. The console driver will use this information for signal delivery if requested or for cut and paste operations if the console is in text mode. .El .Pp .Dv MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT and .Dv MOUSE_BUTTON_EVENT are newer interface and are designed to be used together. They are intended to replace functions performed by .Dv MOUSE_ACTION alone. .Pp .It Va u This union is one of .Pp .Bl -tag -width data -compact .It Va data .Bd -literal struct mouse_data { int x; int y; int z; int buttons; }; .Ed .Pp .Va x , y and .Va z represent movement of the mouse along respective directions. .Va buttons tells the state of buttons. It encodes up to 31 buttons in the bit 0 though the bit 30. If a button is held down, the corresponding bit is set. .Pp .It Va mode .Bd -literal struct mouse_mode { int mode; int signal; }; .Ed .Pp The .Va signal field specifies the signal to be delivered to the process. It must be one of the values defined in .In signal.h . The .Va mode field is currently unused. .Pp .It Va event .Bd -literal struct mouse_event { int id; int value; }; .Ed .Pp The .Va id field specifies a button number as in .Va u.data.buttons . Only one bit/button is set. The .Va value field holds the click count: the number of times the user has clicked the button successively. .El .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /dev/consolectl -compact .It Pa /dev/consolectl device to control the console .It Pa /dev/sysmouse virtualized mouse driver .It Pa /dev/ttyv%d virtual consoles .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr vidcontrol 1 , .Xr ioctl 2 , .Xr signal 3 , .Xr mouse 4 , .Xr moused 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in .Fx 2.2 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit This manual page was written by .An John-Mark Gurney Aq Mt jmg@FreeBSD.org and .An Kazutaka Yokota Aq Mt yokota@FreeBSD.org .