Public bug reported: The evdev driver needs a calibrator for touchscreens, since -evtouch is obsolete and the calibrator that was shipped with it doesn't work with evdev.
>From [1]: "A generic touchscreen calibration program for X.Org. xinput_calibrator is created to fill the gap of touchscreen calibration software, featuring: works for any standard Xorg touchscreen driver (uses XInput protocol) mis-click detection (prevents bogus calibration) dynamically recalibrates the evdev driver outputs the calibration as xorg.conf.d snippet or HAL policy file and more" We need it, because there is no calibrator left after evtouch is removed. The author has packaged it for several distributions, including Debian and Ubuntu, and the package has gone through Debian Mentor review [2] (most of which have been fixed since). The packaging is currently at the same place as the upstream code [3], but will move got git.debian.org under pkg-xorg team maintenance. [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xinput_calibrator [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/08/msg00135.html [3] https://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Assignee: Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) Status: New ** Changed in: ubuntu Assignee: (unassigned) => Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) ** Description changed: The evdev driver needs a calibrator for touchscreens, since -evtouch is obsolete and the calibrator that was shipped with it doesn't work with evdev. From [1]: "A generic touchscreen calibration program for X.Org. xinput_calibrator is created to fill the gap of touchscreen calibration software, featuring: - works for any standard Xorg touchscreen driver (uses XInput protocol) - mis-click detection (prevents bogus calibration) - dynamically recalibrates the evdev driver - outputs the calibration as xorg.conf.d snippet or HAL policy file - and more" + works for any standard Xorg touchscreen driver (uses XInput protocol) + mis-click detection (prevents bogus calibration) + dynamically recalibrates the evdev driver + outputs the calibration as xorg.conf.d snippet or HAL policy file + and more" We need it, because there is no calibrator left after evtouch is removed. + The author has packaged it for several distributions, including Debian + and Ubuntu, and the package has gone through Debian Mentor review [2] + (most of which have been fixed since). The packaging is currently at the + same place as the upstream code [3], but will move got git.debian.org + under pkg-xorg team maintenance. + + [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xinput_calibrator + [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/08/msg00135.html + [3] https://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/735602 Title: FFE: add xinput-calibrate to natty -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
