On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Jason Gerecke <killert...@gmail.com> wrote: > For the X driver, we run into a backwards-compatibility problem > (...unless we go the lame route with ABS_WHEEL). While XI2 provides up > to 36 valuators, I believe there was a limit of 6 valuators at some > point in the past. With the pad device having 3 axes reserved for > X/Y/P, and 2 axes reserved for touch strips, there's just not enough > room for both touch rings. We can break apps that were written with > the 6 valuator limit in mind or break apps that assume the first 5 > axes are X/Y/P/TSl/TSr. I'm not sure what kind of fall-out to expect > from either option, so any insight would be appreciated :)
>From my cursory look at GDK code long ago having more valuators is unlikely to break anything. They just wont be used/supported until software gets updated. Breaking the assumptions about the first five however is most likely to cause six kinds of havoc. -- --Alexia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list Linuxwacom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
