Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-13 Thread Nikolai Kondrashov
On 03/09/2012 11:12 AM, Alexia Death wrote: > With the ink pen the effect isnt directly obvious. its a continuos and > tricky tool and rather lousy for tesing. For your purposes, even the > dev relase before last is fine. Last dev release had a huge dependency > bump and is pain to install on most

Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-09 Thread Alexia Death
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > On 03/08/2012 08:42 PM, Chris Bagwell wrote: >> I believe tilt support is also in 2.6 but does seem to only work with >> certain tools.  The Ink Pen mentions setting tilt sensitivity. >> >> http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-ink.html > >

Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-08 Thread Nikolai Kondrashov
On 03/08/2012 08:42 PM, Chris Bagwell wrote: > I believe tilt support is also in 2.6 but does seem to only work with > certain tools. The Ink Pen mentions setting tilt sensitivity. > > http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-ink.html Thanks, Chris! I have gimp 2.6 and will try the ink pen. Sincerely,

Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-08 Thread Nikolai Kondrashov
Hi Jason, On 03/08/2012 08:06 PM, Jason Gerecke wrote: > While I agree that [0, 127] isn't obvious, changing it to be > 0-symmetric isn't going to happen any time soon. The X driver > unfortunately expects that range -- it doesn't ask the kernel. Any > kernel change would have to come quite a whil

Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-08 Thread Chris Bagwell
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Jason Gerecke wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > >> Can you suggest a way to test the tilt with a real-world application, not >> just "xinput test" or "xev"? >> > > I usually use gimp for real-world testing, though I think you'll

Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-08 Thread Jason Gerecke
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > On 03/08/2012 02:18 AM, Jason Gerecke wrote: >> >> Our kernel driver reports values from [0, 127] with 0 corresponding to >> top/left and 127 to bottom/right. The midpoint is assumed to be >> vertical, with one unit of change correspondin

Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-08 Thread Nikolai Kondrashov
On 03/08/2012 02:18 AM, Jason Gerecke wrote: > Our kernel driver reports values from [0, 127] with 0 corresponding to > top/left and 127 to bottom/right. The midpoint is assumed to be > vertical, with one unit of change corresponding roughly to one degree > of change. Thanks. This appears to me as

Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-07 Thread Nikolai Kondrashov
On 03/08/2012 12:10 AM, Chris Bagwell wrote: > I do not have a tablet with tilt, nor experience on how userland uses > it. And probably I should have read that HID section before replying > but... Here is that part in full, for your reference: 16.3.2 Tilt Orientation X Tilt and Y Tilt

Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-07 Thread Jason Gerecke
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Chris Bagwell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Today I've started implementing a driver for Waltop Sirius Battery Free >> tablet. As it turns out, it reports pen tilting, which is a rare thing for >> non-Wacom

Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] Tilt value meaning

2012-03-07 Thread Chris Bagwell
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Today I've started implementing a driver for Waltop Sirius Battery Free > tablet. As it turns out, it reports pen tilting, which is a rare thing for > non-Wacom tablets! > > Could someone please explain what ABS_TILT_X an