Panasonic CF-18 / touchscreen / evdev / calibration issue

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:38:26AM -0500, John R. wrote:
> On 03/24/10 23:43, John R. wrote:
> > On 03/22/10 16:52, Tias wrote:
> > 
> >> This shows that although the calibration values differ in different
> >> runs, the clicks received by the calibrator are always at just about
> >> the same coordinates.
> >> This means that the calibration values are ignored.
> >>
> >> Not sure what goes wrong...
> >>
> >> Peter, do you have an idea ?
> > 
> > Ignored by evdev?
> 
> Not sure if this helps...
> 
> I worked with "xinput test Touchscreen" and it seems to report back what
> is expected.  In other words, if I click at a point it returns back
> values that make sense.
> 
> If the calibration values are ignored, is there a way of overriding them
> somehow?  What is next step to debug this?

what version of evdev do you have? evdev pre 2.3.2 had a bug where the
calibration parameters in the property were incorrect when set in the
xorg.conf (7b285a802b8ccddd1edcf40ab345c4a96bcdf43c  Report initial
calibration parameters.) 

Cheers,
  Peter