On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:38:59PM +0000, daryl kuchay wrote: > Dear Developers, > > I operate a website that deals with the penmount hardware in relation to > the xf86-input-penmount package. http://webdt.org Sadly, xinput_calibrator, > the only known way to calibrate the unit aside from the proprietary > vendor's gCal application (only built on i686 emulator and the hardware is > i586, aka vendor support is nonexistant) only came out recently when > compared to the lineage of the driver. The vendors solution created a mess > in init and slowed Xorg down considerably. Since discovering > xinput_calibrator a year ago I have put attention to developing linux > versions for the WebDT hardware from DT Research. As the units only have > 500mb flash drives I am testing on Porteus and Slax linux for their small > dormant footprints. I would be happy to test. > > Not sure if my attached logs will make it to the mailing list or not > however I just built kernel 3.9.8 and all the needed switches for the > hardware in question. After installing latest linux console tools and > inputattach utility, calling it on rc.local, modprobing penmount and > installing the latest xf86-input-penmount-1.5.0 from slackware-current I > got a segfault in init. I do have mtdev or multitouch libraries installed. > I will null the squashfs module and reboot to see if it makes any heap of > change. If so I will repost. If not please let me know what I can do to > help. If writing my own driver is at hand I wound not have the skills > needed. Please know that the linux community has only been able to use your > driver for the last year or so due to the gCal necessity and non > cooperative nature of the vendor. Please dont throw in the towel now.
penmount hasn't seen any driver updates for quite a while and the driver is unmaintained. if you see segfaults on server startup, my first guess is that the ABI has changed sufficiently that the driver doesn't work anymore. I don't have a penmount device and neither do any of the other X developers - that's the reason the driver is now unmaintained. I strongly suggest that you get your device working with the kernel (there is a penmount.c) and then use the evdev driver. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
