I'd like to ask a more general question about devices which, like the
Powermate, don't really fit into either the "Keyboard" or "Pointing
device" classes:
To what extent *should* X support these devices?
Let's examine a ShuttlePro - a jog wheel, a spinner, 15 buttons. It's
not really a keyboard,
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:02 PM, wrote:
> 4) javascript code dynamically creates a node (something like this)
> < embed type="x-application/embedded-xapp"
>params="/usr/bin/xclock" width="100" height="100" />
>
>and adds that node to the browser DOM model (location
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:
>
> it's the npapi plugin capability that i want - the ability to plug in
> an arbitrary XWindows application into a web browser - not the X
> compression. it looks like LBX was utilised in rxr because it was not
> just a channel for x-window e
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 11:05 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> that's probably because they advertise a button/axis combination that evdev
> does interpret correctly, or because they're posting the axis information
> wrongly. I had my hands on an HP Touchsmart for a short while and it was
> posting x/y
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:43 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:40:29PM -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
> I agree. getting something sensible in the kernel prevents us from replicating
> the "one X driver per device" hilarity.
> Once we have that support in the kernel, we can look a
> That's odd; perhaps they didn't get the right HAL properties added.
> The N-Trig (multi) touchscreen on the Dell Latitude XT and HP Touchsmart
> TX2 works out of the box for touch with evdev GIT HEAD. (Clicking via
> screen taps requires a patch to map BTN_TOUCH to BTN_LEFT, though.)
>
> - Chri
> Hi David,
>
> My intuition is that adding the reporting to the kernel and hooking it
> up through the standard evdev driver would be the right way to go; evdev
> already has single-touch support working fairly well.
Interesting, because the touchpanels I've used were NOT recognized by
evdev at a
I am working with a (somewhat new-ish) touchscreen system which supports
Multi-touch reporting, based upon an eGalix controller. Unfortunately,
this is NOT currently supported under Linux (when will these vendors wake
up to the fact that the embedded world is moving away from Windows(tm)?)
I don't
