On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:31:11PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:51:35 +1000, > Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 03:20:40PM -0400, Joe Shaw wrote: > > > Attached are a pair of patches which add support for absolute > > > coordinate motion events to the synaptics driver. The first patch > > > allows Absolute to be passed into XSetDeviceMode() and the latter posts > > > absolute motion events using the raw X and Y coordinates rather than > > > computing deltas. > > > > I do wonder how many users actually use their touchpad in absolute mode. > > It'd be suited well for graffiti or hand-written letter recognition, > for example. The demand is likely a niche, though.
Note that the synaptics driver is more a set of features than an actual hardware driver. see also http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/07/input-event-processing-in-x.html, second paragraph. If you're doing graffity on a touchpad, evdev should work just fine. synaptics is for those that need touchpad features like two-finger scrolling, etc. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
