evtest: No such file or directory

[slenderq]

Trying to use this on a GalliumOS (based on XUbuntu).

When I run: syngestures I get: evtest: No such file or directory

Although, I have evtest installed with apt

which evtest /usr/bin/evtest

Also noting that evtest runs on my system just fine.

evtest is also accessible from the root user, running syngestures as root does not help.

Any ideas? Thanks, Justin

[slenderq]

Update: just tried sudo chmod u+s $(which evtest) based on older issues. No luck.

Also tried to reinstalling. No luck.

[mqudsi]

syngestures does its own checking for evtest, if it's not found it prints

Cannot find evtest - make sure it is installed and try again!

Which means this isn't about evtest not being found.

You might be seeing an error from evtest - in that case, the problem is with the path to the input device in your syngestures.toml configuration file.

[slenderq]

Ah that is totally it. Thanks for the quick response. Putting the same path I used into evtest recreated the error.

[shantanu-shantanu]

Hi I am having problem knowing the device. Can you kindly take a look and tell me what should I put in device. bcm 5974 is the trackpad's name as per xinput list. And thank you in advance.

`$ dmesg [ 3.910432] usb 2-1.8.3: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=0252, bcdDevice= 2.19 [ 3.910437] usb 2-1.8.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 3.910440] usb 2-1.8.3: Product: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad [ 3.910441] usb 2-1.8.3: Manufacturer: Apple Inc. [ 3.920923] input: Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.8/2-1.8.3/2-1.8.3:1.0/0003:05AC:0252.0002/input/input6 [ 3.923149] raid6: sse2x1 gen() 8326 MB/s [ 3.923154] raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 gen() 10565 MB/s [ 3.940145] raid6: .... xor() 5950 MB/s, rmw enabled [ 3.940148] raid6: using ssse3x2 recovery algorithm [ 3.940560] xor: automatically using best checksumming function avx
[ 3.940843] async_tx: api initialized (async) [ 3.968218] usb 2-1.8.1.1: new full-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci [ 3.973417] apple 0003:05AC:0252.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8.3/input0 [ 3.973577] apple 0003:05AC:0252.0003: hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Device [Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8.3/input1 [ 4.049132] usb 2-1.8.1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=820a, bcdDevice= 1.00 [ 4.049170] usb 2-1.8.1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0

[ 7.403920] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [ 7.798365] input: bcm5974 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.8/2-1.8.3/2-1.8.3:1.2/input/input15 [ 7.799077] usbcore: registered new interface driver bcm5974 [ 8.410568] alg: No test for fips(ansi_cprng) (fips_ansi_cprng)

$ lsinput /dev/input/event0 bustype : BUS_HOST vendor : 0x0 product : 0x5 version : 0 name : "Lid Switch" phys : "PNP0C0D/button/input0" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event1 bustype : BUS_HOST vendor : 0x0 product : 0x1 version : 0 name : "Power Button" phys : "PNP0C0C/button/input0" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event2 bustype : BUS_HOST vendor : 0x0 product : 0x3 version : 0 name : "Sleep Button" phys : "PNP0C0E/button/input0" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event3 bustype : BUS_HOST vendor : 0x0 product : 0x1 version : 0 name : "Power Button" phys : "LNXPWRBN/button/input0" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event4 bustype : BUS_HOST vendor : 0x0 product : 0x6 version : 0 name : "Video Bus" phys : "LNXVIDEO/video/input0" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event5 bustype : BUS_USB vendor : 0x5ac product : 0x8242 version : 273 name : "Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver" phys : "usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8.2/input0" uniq : "" bits ev : (null) (null) (null)

/dev/input/event6 bustype : BUS_USB vendor : 0x5ac product : 0x252 version : 273 name : "Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboa" phys : "usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8.3/input0" uniq : "" bits ev : (null) (null) (null) (null) (null)

/dev/input/event7 bustype : BUS_USB vendor : 0x0 product : 0x0 version : 4 name : "ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event9 bustype : (null) vendor : 0x0 product : 0x0 version : 0 name : "HDA Intel PCH Headphone" phys : "ALSA" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event10 bustype : (null) vendor : 0x0 product : 0x0 version : 0 name : "HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3" phys : "ALSA" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event11 bustype : (null) vendor : 0x0 product : 0x0 version : 0 name : "HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7" phys : "ALSA" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event12 bustype : (null) vendor : 0x0 product : 0x0 version : 0 name : "HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8" phys : "ALSA" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event13 bustype : BUS_HOST vendor : 0x0 product : 0x0 version : 0 name : "applesmc" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event14 bustype : BUS_USB vendor : 0x5ac product : 0x8509 version : 1302 name : "FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in): " phys : "usb-0000:00:1a.0-1.1/button" bits ev : (null) (null)

/dev/input/event15 bustype : BUS_USB vendor : 0x5ac product : 0x252 version : 1 name : "bcm5974" phys : "usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.8.3/input0" bits ev : (null) (null) (null)

$ xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ bcm5974 id=13 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in): id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad id=12 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]

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[mqudsi]

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