HPEN(4)

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.

SEE ALSO
iichid(4), usbhid(4), xorg.conf(5) (ports/x11/xorg)

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
-nosplit The hpen driver was written by Val Packett <val@packett.cool>.

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