On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Ping Cheng <pingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Ping Cheng <pingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Chris Bagwell <ch...@cnpbagwell.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I obviously need some help here since I'm flying blind without the
>>> problem device.  I can make a kernel patch but can't test it.
>>>
>>> Part of this email is also to make sure no one thinks we should try to
>>> solve this purely on userland side.
>>
>>
>> If you feel the urge to update the kernel driver, you can defintely do so
>> for Graphire. There is one minor detail you might need to pay a bit extra
>> attention in xf86-input-wacom and/or the kernel driver: Graphire 4 has a
>> relative wheel on the tablet. That is, for Graphire 4, the PAD and the Wacom
>> mouse both have relative wheels. You'll need to fingure out a way to report
>> them differently to support the case when the mouse is placed on the tablet
>> while users uses the PAD.
>
>
> Another thing I forgot to mention. The diffference, except touch, between
> Graphire/old Bamboo and Bamboo with touch (the one you use) is, most
> Graphire/non-touch Bamboo has a mouse. So, we need to find a different set
> of default buttons for non-touch Bamboo PAD (with two or four buttons) if
> we want to leave the default buttons for CURSOR (mouse) unchanged.
>

Hmmm.  There is an issue there when we convert to generic, huh?  Well,
we can squeak by if we continue to use BTN_LEFT/RIGHT/MIDDLE for mouse
and BTN_0/1/4/5 for PAD.

I keep this in mind as I make updates to see if I can resolve some of
the xf86-input-wacom side issues before we get there.

Chris

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