On 11/10/2011 10:30 AM, Jean-François Dagenais wrote: > On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:54, Chase Douglas wrote: > >> On 11/10/2011 09:51 AM, Jean-François Dagenais wrote: >>> Thanks for trying to help... >>> On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:39, Chase Douglas wrote: >>> >>>> On 11/09/2011 02:49 PM, Jean-François Dagenais wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I am using maverick, >>>>> I have tried for the last two days to do something which some X >>>>> developers would find quite trivial I imagine. We have a capacitive wheel >>>>> using the ad714x.c driver in the kernel. In my latest desperations, I >>>>> have changed the events sent by ad714x.c so they are BTN_LEFT and ABS_Y >>>>> so that it better matches what a mouse does. I am trying to make this >>>>> wheel do what a regular mouse wheel does. OR even better, send a keyboard >>>>> keycode (one for up, one for down), which I may do later by hacking the >>>>> evdev code. But first things first, why I am not able to get this to >>>>> work... >>>> >>>> I'm confused by what you are trying to do. I'm not sure I'll be able to >>>> help until I understand what you want the end result to be. If you could >>>> start out with a description of your device and what it should logically >>>> be doing that would help me. >>> Well, as you see from the evtest dump I included, I have a capacitance >>> touch wheel. The events it sends out (EV_TOUCH pressed/release, and >>> ABS_WHEEL position) is not useable in our X application. We want to map >>> these movements to events our application can better respond to, like >>> button events (mouse wheel) or better yet, key events, for example KP_UP >>> and KP_DOWN. >> >> Why is ABS_WHEEL, which is translated to X button press/release for >> buttons 4 and 5, insufficient for your use case? > ABS_WHEEL translates to cursor X axis movements on my setup, not button > presses.
That sounds like a bug in your version of xf86-input-evdev... ABS_WHEEL should only be translated to button 3 and 4 press and release events. Are you using a modified version of xf86-input-evdev? -- Chase -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
