NAME

hpen —

MS Windows compatible HID pen tablet driver

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

device hpen
device hid
device hidbus
device hidmap
device evdev

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

hpen_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The hpen driver provides support for generic MS Windows compatible HID pen tablet and digitizer that attach to the HID transport backend. See iichid(4) or usbhid(4).

The /dev/input/event* device presents the pen as a evdev type device.

SYSCTL VARIABLES

The following variable is available as both sysctl(8) variable and loader(8) tunable:

dev.hpen.X.debug: Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase debug message verbosity. Default is 0.

It's default value is set with loader(8) tunable:

hw.hid.hpen.debug

FILES

/dev/input/event*: input event device node.

BUGS

hpen cannot act like sysmouse(4).

Pen battery charge level reporting is not supported.

HISTORY

The hpen driver first appeared in FreeBSD 13.0.

AUTHORS

The hpen driver was written by Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>.

This manual page was written by Vladimir Kondratyev <wulf@FreeBSD.org>.