On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 23:38:38 -0500 Andrew Deason <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a USB trackpoint device I would like to use with X on Linux > (the trackpoint is the nub mouse thing on some keyboards, usually > known for laptop keyboards). All current input drivers seem to > interpret movement data for it incorrectly, and I'd like to fix that. > But I'm unfamiliar with xorg development, so I'm not sure where such > code "should" go. [...] > So my intuition says to just add support for evdev. Or the Linux > kernel driver could do this kind of calculation itself, to make the > device appear more like other trackpoint devices, like the PS/2 ones; > then the evdev X driver would do the right thing. Am I on the right > track, here? Just in case anyone finds this via archives or whatnot and was wondering what happened, I am indeed trying to fix this in the kernel. This patch, in particular: <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/31935> -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
