inputattach(1)

💖 inputattach — bestie, let's get that serial line a whole personality 💖

okay so like. inputattach is the manual page we're doing today, and she is a general commands manual girlie, main character energy fr fr. buckle up 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

inputattach — attach a serial line to an input-layer device ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

inputattach [--daemon] [--always] [--noinit] [--baud baud>] <mode>
<device>

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically, inputattach attaches a serial line to an input-layer device via a line discipline. that's the whole vibe. that's what she does. no cap. 🫶

You gotta give her at least one of the available modes on the command line — one is mandatory, bestie. and here's the cute part: if the modes can be probed, you can throw up to four of them in there, and she'll try them in sequence until one matches the device. iconic behaviour honestly 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --daemon — forks into the background. she's leaving, she's got stuff to do, bye 👋
• --always — ignore initialization failures when attaching the device. not me ignoring my problems 💀
• --noinit — skip device initialization entirely. just walk right past it.
• --baud — specify the baud rate to use. (only necessary if the default rate is incorrect — so like, don't touch it unless you gotta 🙈)

🎀 Modes 🎀

okay this is the big one, bestie. here's every single mode, no skips, no shortcuts, periodt. 👑

• -bare, --microsoft — 2-button Microsoft mouse. 🐭
• -dump, --dump — just enable device. that's it. that's the whole job.
• -eeti, --eetiegalax — EETI eGalaxTouch.
• -elo, --elotouch — ELO touchscreen, 10-byte mode.
• -elo3b, --elo261-280 — ELO Touchscreen, 3-byte mode.
• -elo4b, --elo271-140 — ELO touchscreen, 4-byte mode.
• -elo6b, --elo4002 — ELO touchscreen, 6-byte mode.
• -ep, --easypen — Genius EasyPen 3x4 tablet.
• -fjt, --fujitsu — Fujitsu serial touchscreen.
• -fsia6b, --fsia6b — FS-iA6B RC Receiver.
• -ham, --hampshire — Hampshire touchscreen.
• -ifor, --iforce — I-Force joystick or wheel.
• -ipaq, --h3600ts — Ipaq h3600 touchscreen.
• -ipaqkbd, --stowawaykbd — Stowaway keyboard.
• -lk, --lkkbd — DEC LK201 / LK401 keyboards.
• -mag, --magellan — Magellan / SpaceMouse.
• -mman, --mouseman — 3-button Logitech / Genius mouse.
• -mman4, --mouseman4 — 4-button Logitech / Genius mouse.
• -mmw, --mmwheel — Logitech mouse with 4-5 buttons or a wheel.
• -ms, --mshack — 3-button mouse in Microsoft mode.
• -ms3, --intellimouse — Microsoft IntelliMouse.
• -msc, --mousesystems — 3-button Mouse Systems mouse.
• -mtouch, --mtouch — MicroTouch (3M) touchscreen.
• -newt, --newtonkbd — Newton keyboard.
• -orb, --spaceorb — SpaceOrb 360 / SpaceBall Avenger.
• -pm3k, --penmount3000 — PenMount 3000 touchscreen.
• -pm6k, --penmount6000 — PenMount 6000 touchscreen.
• -pm9k, --penmount9000 — PenMount 9000 touchscreen.
• -pmm1, --penmount6250 — PenMount 6250 touchscreen.
• -ps2m, --ps2mult — PS/2 serial multiplexer.
• -ps2ser, --ps2serkbd — PS/2 via serial keyboard.
• -pulse8-cec, --pulse8-cec — Pulse Eight HDMI CEC dongle.
• -rainshadow-cec, --rainshadow-cec — RainShadow Tech HDMI CEC dongle.
• -sbl, --spaceball — SpaceBall 2003 / 3003 / 4000 FLX.
• -skb, --sunkbd — Sun Type 4 and Type 5 keyboards.
• -sting, --stinger — Gravis Stinger.
• -sun, --sunmouse — 3-button Sun mouse.
• -t213, --touchit213 — Sahara Touch-iT213 Tablet PC.
• -taos, --taos-evm — TAOS evaluation module.
• -tr, --touchright — Touchright serial touchscreen.
• -tsc, --tsc — TSC-10/25/40 serial touchscreen.
• -tw, --touchwin — Touchwindow serial touchscreen.
• -twid, --twiddler — Handykey Twiddler chording keyboard.
• -twidjoy, --twiddler-joy — Handykey Twiddler used as a joystick.
• -vs, --vsxxx-aa — DEC VSXXX-AA / VSXXX-GA mouse and VSXXX-A tablet.
• -w8001, --w8001 — Wacom W8001 pen and/or touch devices. The default baud rate, 38400bps, allows for touch-only or pen and touch devices; for pen-only devices, --baud 19200 must be specified. 👈 read this one twice, bestie, it's the one with ✨rules✨
• -wacom_iv, --wacom_iv — Wacom protocol IV tablet.
• -war, --warrior — WingMan Warrior.
• -zhen, --zhen-hua — Zhen Hua 5-byte protocol.

48 modes. fourty-eight. she contains multitudes and we respect her for it 🫡

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

inputattach was written by Vojtech Pavlik and Arndt Schoenewald, and improved by many others; see the linuxconsole tools documentation for details. look at all those contributors, we love a collaborative queen 💜

This manual page was written by Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). slay, Stephen. thank you for your service 🎀

okay that's the whole page!! this one dropped as part of the linuxconsole tools situation, and the version date on it is October 5, 2019 — yeah she's been around a minute, but she still eats 💅✨ bye bestie, go attach something 🦋