Ok, I think I got it to work.

I've currently hardcoded the vendor and product ID to the values for a
USB tablet. This made it switch into protocol 5 mode.

The jumping of the cursor was due to the fact that I also reset the
tool id (which gets sent by the ABS_MISC event). The following code in
wcmUSB.c thus caused the proximity to get set when it shouldn't have
been set:

1048                 case ABS_MISC:
1049                         ds->proximity = (event->value != 0);

Not resetting the tool id in my code fixed the behaviour.

Now, when both a stylus and mouse are in proximity, moving the stylus
makes the mouse pointer move accordingly. Moving the mouse makes the
mouse pointer quickly jump in the corresponding relative direction
(when a mouse packet is received), after which it immediately gets
"pulled back" to the position of the stylus (when a stylus packet is
received). I assume that this is the behaviour we expect, given that
the X server isn't quite aware of the concept of multiple
'independent' input devices.


Lastly, I noticed that the xf86-intput-wacom doesn't seem to check the
reported min and max values for the x and y absolute tilt axes. I
originally sent a 'centered' value where 0 means vertical and 'min x
tilt' (= -64) means 'horizontal to the left', and 'max x tilt' (= +63)
means 'horizontal to the right'.
The minimum tilt value seems to be hardcoded to 0 and the maximum tilt
value to 128. I fixed the behaviour of my driver by sending a value
from 0 to 127 instead of -64 to 63.
Is this hardcoded behaviour intentional? Isn't it better and safer to
look at the actual reported min/max tilt values (and have the
hardcoded values as a fall back for when we can't read the reporded
min/max values, or when they don't make sense)?
I could try to write a patch to change this behaviour, if that is desirable.


Roald

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