RE: Live Touchscreen Calibration [WAS: magictouch touch screen driver]

2005-06-10 Thread Veikko Werner
Hi, actually a great thing to have, but not that easy. The main problem is, that the driver itself has to be disabled. - this can be solved by quitting X and doing a calibration with touchcal - the other possibility is (I don't know how) to disable the driver while running X and then doing

Re: Live Touchscreen Calibration [WAS: magictouch touch screen driver]

2005-06-10 Thread damian gruszka
Hi, I don't think a functionality like this is really necessary. A calibration utility is started by a user once to find the mapping from touchscreen coordinates to real screen. In general it is a matrix doing shifting, stretching and rotating. To use scrn-currentMode is from my perspective

Re: Live Touchscreen Calibration [WAS: magictouch touch screen driver]

2005-06-10 Thread Fred Gleason
On Friday 10 June 2005 03:17, Veikko Werner wrote: actually a great thing to have, but not that easy. The main problem is, that the driver itself has to be disabled. Why so? AFAICT, we basically need two things: 1) The ability to get 'raw' --i.e. unscaled -- data from the device during the

Re: Live Touchscreen Calibration [WAS: magictouch touch screen driver]

2005-06-10 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:00:54PM -0700, bruno schwander wrote: BTW, I submitted the source for the magictouch driver on this mailling list, is there any chance it will appear in the XFree86 tree someday ? If a comitter needs changes, fixes to it or has questions, I'll be happy to help as I can.

Re: Live Touchscreen Calibration [WAS: magictouch touch screen driver]

2005-06-10 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:53:47AM -0400, Fred Gleason wrote: On Friday 10 June 2005 03:17, Veikko Werner wrote: actually a great thing to have, but not that easy. The main problem is, that the driver itself has to be disabled. Why so? AFAICT, we basically need two things: 1) The ability to

Re: Live Touchscreen Calibration [WAS: magictouch touch screen driver]

2005-06-09 Thread bruno schwander
It would be great if you could add that... what do you mean by live calibration ? It seems to me that calibration should be (mostly) a userland utility, that you do not want to run everytime the Xserver starts. I probably misunderstood what you meant. My only issue currently, is that if