Re: Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-23 Thread Patrick Dubroy
Never mind -- it turns out I wasn't pressing hard enough on the tablet area. I can now see the tablet events in both the firmware tests, and using evtest. Pat On 1/22/08, Patrick Dubroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got my hands on a B2 machine, and finally got around to giving this a go. > >

Re: Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-22 Thread Patrick Dubroy
I've got my hands on a B2 machine, and finally got around to giving this a go. When I boot into the firmware tests and get to the tablet test, it doesn't seem to detect anything at all except in the center third (the capactive area). Does this mean that the firmware in this machine doesn't support

Re: Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-14 Thread Wade Brainerd
You can watch the output of the PT by downloading and compiling evtest: wget http://david.woodhou.se/evtest.c gcc -o evtest evtest.c ./evtest /dev/input/event5 0 It's event5 on my XO, you might have to use a different number. Anyway, then drag something around on the PT and watch the output. Th

Re: Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-14 Thread Patrick Dubroy
I'm the student Mike mentioned who will be working on this project. Does anyone have any more details on how much low level work needs to be done? I know there will need to be work done to map the input from the tablet to X events. Is the device driver fully functional? I'd appreciate any more de

Re: Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-10 Thread Eben Eliason
We put a lot of thought into how this might work for the Paint activity in particular, which seems like it would be a prime example for it's use in an arbitrarily large space. Special care was taken to minimize the extent to which one would have to switch between stylus and finger while drawing. N

Re: Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-10 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Jan 10, 2008, at 16:46 , Mike C. Fletcher wrote: > I have a student who's interested in doing a term project on the UI > for > the track sensor. A year ago we discussed a design that would naturally integrate the finger (GS) and stylus (PT) operation. It would not require any special UI

Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-10 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
I have a student who's interested in doing a term project on the UI for the track sensor. I've put together this quick summary. Deadline looms for starting the project, so if people have "don't do that" or "we've already done that" feedback, please speak up ASAP. Background: * XO has two di