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hidview

Display information about human-interface devices

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You must be root to run this utility. You must start io-hid before you use the hidview utility.

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Syntax:

hidview [-a] [-d devno] [-N name] [-r] [-R] 

Options:

-a

Display raw data coming from devices.

-d devno

Display information about devno only.

-N name

Name of the HID server to query. The default is /dev/io-hid/io-hid.

-R

Display informative report descriptor information.

-r

Display raw report descriptor information.

Description:

The hidview utility displays information about human-interface devices (HID).

Examples:

Here's a sample of output from a hidview command:

HIDD v1.00, v1.00 DDK

Device Address : 0
Vendor : 0x05c7 (QTRONIX)
Product : 0x2011 (USB Keyboard and Mouse)
Version : r1.00
Usage : Keyboard


Device Address : 1
Vendor : 0x05c7 (QTRONIX)
Product : 0x2011 (USB Keyboard and Mouse)
Version : r1.00
Usage : Mouse

See also:

devh-usb.so, devh-ps2ser.so, io-hid

"HID drivers (devh-*)" in the Utilities Summary

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