What is the Apple Mikey HID Driver for?
Cheers,
does anyone know what component in Macbook identifies itself as "Apple Mikey HID Driver"? Joystick and Gamepad Tester detected my gamepad, the keyboard (with each key as a separate axis/button/whatever) and this mysterious device (with single axis/button identified as 'Page: 0x6, Usage: 0x22' which doesn't update).
This is in white Unibody Macbook '09.
Remark: While Googling for the component, I stumbled upon this mailing list post mentioning Apple IR?
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It looks like AppleMikeyDriver.kext handles events from buttons on a headset plugged in to the headphone port.
I'm not sure if this is all it does, but I can get ControllerMate to detect a "System Menu Select" key from this driver when I push the button on an old iPhone microphone/headset.
Most likely Driver for the built in Microphone.
I did Google for AppleMikeyDriver or AppleMikeyDriver.kext (these are the OS X versions) and while there was no clear answer, there were a few (like parts from the syslog) which indicated a relationship to sound which makes sense with the given name too.
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