On söndag 25 maj 2008, Ron wrote: [...] > Magnus, I saw some weirdness with this one too, that's not quite the > same as what is reported here, but it involved the mouse behaviour > becoming quite screwed up after a period of using the tablet stylus > with the patched 0.8.0 release we put together. It was _really_ weird, > the mouse would stop responding totally to button presses in the windows > for one application, until I did something with it in a different > application, then something else would fail to respond to them instead. > > At the time it was hard to say if the tablet, or just xorg (which I'd > just upgraded on the machine under test) was to blame for what was going > on, but I haven't used the tablet since (though it is plugged in with > the driver loaded) and I haven't seen this reoccur. > > I'm not sure if these two things are at all related, but it does sound > like something is still screwing up the device registration tables in > xorg at the moment...
My experience with 1.4 is that there are a few regressions concerning the input drivers and the event reporting. Some are related to the fact that X.org is starting to catch up with the world regarding hotplugging (something the lw-driver did handle.. not in the best way, but still), and mixing these two approaches causes a few conflicts. Some are related to not having access to enough hardware so the aspects of an absolute reporting device was left out, but this is something that is starting to get corrected now. Anyway I think the lw-driver should benefit from a rewrite for xserver 1.4 (which is why I made the hotplug branch). But since Daniel had ideas for a new hotplug system that are quite different from today, I don't know where to start atm. Trying to patch the regressions or make it work in the long run... The few hours I can put on this won't be enough for both.. Cheers Magnus
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