Søren Hauberg wrote: > Hi, > > 2009/9/10 Tias <[email protected]>: >> In the end, I had to hack up the ancient tkxinput because it was the only >> device independent calibrator (it uses Xinput to read the coordinates). On >> the other hand, I was impressed by the simplicity of the calibrator that >> Soren Hauberg sent to this list in july (thread titled 'Evdev touchscreen >> calibration?'), although it was written for usbtouchscreen driven devices >> specifically. >> >> >> I figured that a generic calibration program should be device independent >> when reading calibration data, and device dependent in how to use the data. >> >> I've adapted Soren's calibrator to do exactly this: it reads the current >> calibration from Xinput. When the usbtouchscreen driver is used, it >> dynamically changes the calibration. Otherwise it prints the new calibration >> data in xorg.conf format on stdout. Other actions would be possible too, >> like rewriting the xorg.conf directly, maybe even use some new evdev/Xinput2 >> goodness ? > > It's been quite a while since I was working on this (I changed job, so > I never got to finish this), so my comments might not actually be > true. > > First, I'd like to add that I'm glad you're spending time on > resurecting my old code. Thanks :-) > > Second, part of this code was added before the 'evdev' X11 driver got > support for touchscreens. This driver allows you to set the > calibration parameters at run-time without making changes to xorg.conf > (hence no restart of X). I think the calibration tool should use this > instead of working with xorg.conf.
Wauw, it would be great to use this new 'evdev' functionality! Where can I find out the details about this ? Or could somebody provide a code sample or something ? Thanks, Tias _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
