I recently bought a presenter with laser pointer (August LP205R), but it doesn't seem to work with Ubuntu 14.04. The remote control seems to work, as the little receiver flashes whenever I press one of the buttons, but the presentation (pdf in presentation mode) doesn't react. Any ideas?
xinput:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ RF 2.4G RF 2.4G id=16 [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)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HD WebCam id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Acer WMI hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ RF 2.4G RF 2.4G id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 009: ID 1d57:83ed Xenta
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 0489:e04e Foxconn / Hon Hai
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b3d6 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
The Xenta entry goes away when I remove the USB-device. Nothing seems to change in the output of xinput.
xev:
KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
root 0xbd, subw 0x0, time 7322246, (-153,412), root:(634,464),
state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
root 0xbd, subw 0x0, time 7322478, (-153,412), root:(634,464),
state 0x11, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
The slide left/slide right buttons don't provoke any reaction, neither does the screen on/ screen off, this one should turn powerpoint on and off, I think.
