Gleason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 7:10 AM
To: devel@XFree86.Org
Subject: Live Touchscreen Calibration [WAS: magictouch touch screen
driver]
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 16:04, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
Since touchscreen drivers seem to be getting back in style
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
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
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.
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
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 16:04, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
Since touchscreen drivers seem to be getting back in style, maybe
we should write up some live calibration support ;-)
I'm game. I've actually been toying with the idea of doing something like
this for the ELO drivers for some time.
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
