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authorPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2011-01-05 13:38:03 +1000
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Add man-pages for the various evemu-tools.
Using asciidoc and xmlto, conditional on their availability at configure time. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
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1EVEMU-DESCRIBE(1)
2=================
3
4NAME
5----
6
7 evemu-describe, evemu-record - print information and events from an
8 input device
9
10SYNOPSIS
11--------
12 evemu-describe /dev/input/eventX
13
14 evemu-record /dev/input/eventX
15
16DESCRIPTION
17-----------
18evemu-describe gathers information about the input device and prints it to
19stdout. This information can be parsed by evemu-device(1) to create a
20virtual input device with the same properties.
21
22evemu-record captures events from the input device and prints them to
23stdout. The events can be parsed by evemu-play(1) to let a virtual input
24device created with evemu-device(1) emit the exact same event sequence.
25
26evemu-describe and evemu-record need to be able to read from the device; in
27most cases this means they must be run as root.
28
29DIAGNOSTICS
30-----------
31If evtest-record does not see any events even though the device is being
32used, the device may be grabbed by a process (EVIOCGRAB). This is usually
33the case when debugging a synaptics or wacom device from within X. VT
34switching to a TTY or shutting down the X server terminates this grab and
35the devices can be recorded.
36
37SEE ALSO
38--------
39evemu-device(1)
40evemu-play(1)
41
42AUTHOR
43------
44evemu was written by Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>