I have a USB Zebex barcode scanner, this device works properly using Windows XP and Windows Vista when I open Notepad.
However I can't get it to work on Ubuntu. I open Gedit, and it makes the same noise as in Windows, but nothing scans.
Any advice will be appreciated.
Best Answer
Two things you could try:
This will give you a list of all input devices that are recognized by Xorg and allows you to enable or disable devices as well as test them (replace
${DEVICEID}
with what is displayed byxinput list
):Second thing you could try would be the more low-level
evtest
tool (replace/dev/input/eventX
with the proper device file):It should print events to the screen when it gets data.
evtest
is part of thejoystick
package in Ubuntu.Neither of these will make your Barcode scanner work, but they will allow you to figure out where the problem is. If
evtest
works, butxinput
doesn't, then you have to tweak your Xorg.conf and manually add it as extra keyboard, if neither works then its a Kernel driver problem.