[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-evdev 2.0.99.2

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Fri Oct 24 00:00:42 PDT 2008


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:50:20AM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 2008/10/24 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>:
> > Touchscreen support (courtesy of Søren) enables devices that report only
> > BTN_TOUCH capability, but no BTN_LEFT, BTN_RIGHT, etc.
> 
> Great! The only major thing left is then to be able to calibrate a
> touch screen. I haven't been able to come up with anything better than
> my original patch, which essentially did a
> 
>   if (is_touch_screen)
>     transform_data_according_to_calibration ()
> 
> for every event. My impression is that you don't like this approach.
> Is that correct?

I wasn't happy with it because I wanted to avoid double scaling (once in the
driver, once in the server). But as I haven't found a better way to get the
same thing (not w/o changing the server and XI), I'm willing to put it in.
Need to have a look at it again though.

Cheers,
  Peter



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