Help with evdev..

[Michael Frey]

Is there support for absolute evdev devices in Xorg6.9?

Michael

On Mar 7, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:49:49AM -0500, Michael Frey wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I am trying to use a touch-screen driver that send ABS events via the
>> kernel input event subsystem(/dev/input/event4).  When trying to use
>> the evdev diver in Xorg,  I get the following error in the Xorg.log.
>>
>> Bad valuators reported for device "Touchscreen0-"
>>
>>
>> The log also reports the Touchscreen as the following:
>>
>> (**) Touchscreen0: name: (null), phys: (null), device: /dev/input/
>> event4, pass: 0.
>> (II) evdev brain: Rescanning devices (1).
>> (**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
>> (**) Touchscreen0-: always reports core events
>> (II) Touchscreen0-: Found 3 absolute axes.
>> (II) Touchscreen0-: Configuring as pointer.
>> (**) Touchscreen0-: Configuring in Absolute mode.
>> (**) Touchscreen0-: AbsoluteScreen: 0.
>> (II) Touchscreen0-: Found 0 relative axes.
>> (II) Touchscreen0-: Configuring as pointer.
>> (**) Touchscreen0-: Configuring 2 relative axes.
>> (II) Touchscreen0-: Found 75 mouse buttons
>> (II) Touchscreen0-: Configured 75 mouse buttons
>>
>>
>> Can someone tell me what this means?  Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
> Uh, crap.
>
> I'll figure out what's going on there tomorrow or so, I seem to have
> broken absolute devices when doing the abs to rel support.
>
> But I have a tablet now, so I reproduce and fix it as soon as I'm  
> awake
> and have a few minutes.
>
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