Søren Hauberg wrote: > 2008/9/26 Simon Thum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Søren Hauberg wrote: >>> (WW) TSC-10 DM TSC-10 DM: Don't know how to use device >> Simply lookup evdev. Your kernel driver doesn't advertise buttons I guess, >> so evdev thinks it can't handle it. Adding your case in EvdevProbe should do >> the trick. The problem might become generating 'buttons' though. > Okay, I don't know how I missed that -- thanks :-) No problem. > So, the 'usbtouchscreen' kernel only announces that it sends > BTN_TOUCH, which is indeed the only thing it sends. The problem is > that I can't just change how things work in the evdev X11 driver as > that will most likely cause problems for people with touchpads. So, > what is the proper solution? Should the touchscreens send a different > signal (e.g. BTN_LEFT or possibly a new one called BTN_SCREENTOUCH)? Well, I'm not so deep in that but anyway: I'd say if BTN_TOUCH is proper, evdev should cope with it. You could check for that and register the device using XI_TOUCHSCREEN. Then see how BTN_TOUCH behaves and try to guess a button press, maybe some threshold does it.
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