Yes, high bits of tilt valuators were used for reporting tool serial
number and ID during release 0.7.5 and 0.7.6.  It has been removed due
to backward compatibility support.  Now we report tool serial number
and ID through xsetwacom.

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On 5/13/07, Magnus Vigerlöf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On söndag 13 maj 2007, Alex Crow wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > It seems that tilt is not being used properly, or not being reported
> > properly to the above programs.
> >
> > xidump shows the tilt varying as expected between -64 and 63, but a
> > program I found called "xinput", which reports the valuators provided by
> > the Xinput system show the valuators with some very large, odd values,
> > which hardly change at all when tilting (handavingly I'd say they change
> > by less than 1% across the full tilt range.)
> >
> > In addition, I've noticed that when swapping between the pen tool and the
> > airbrush accessory, the values change quite substantially. Therefore it
> > seems like something "else" is being included into these valuators that
> > completely swamps the tilt values.
>
> Yes... I've seen code in the X-driver that adds the tool id and serial id of
> the tool to the upper part of valuators three to five, but that code has not
> been active in the driver for a while (commented out in 0.7.6-4, can't find
> it in 0.7.7-*).
>
> Which versions of the software do you have? (OS, Xorg/XFree86, wacom
> [kernel+Xdriver])
>
> Cheers
>  Magnus
>
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