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Re: libusb-1.0, does it even work?



Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 02:53:43PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
>> It always prints this, run as root or not, even though I have at least a
>> USB mouse plugged in:
>> 
>> $ ./usb
>> libusb_init: 0
>> count = 0
>
> On NetBSD libusb (unfortunately) can only see "ugen" devices. As long as
> a different driver (e.g. uhid) claims a device, it is not available for
> userland via libusb.
>
> So does the device you want to talk to attach as ugen? If not (like in the
> case of your mouse) you need to add a UQ_HID_IGNORE quirk to
> sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c.

I have successfully used libusb1 for things that attach as ugen.

As far as the package and man page, if upstream provides a man page and
the package doens't install it, that seems easy to fix.  If upstream
doesn't have a mag page, that's harder.   Or did you mean something
else?

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