On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 01:47:43AM +0200, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: > > >I believe the point is to have such a driver in the vanilla kernel, not to > >adopt a third-party driver. > > > >Is this hardware available anywhere besides thrift stores? > > personally i doubt it, thus i doubt it makes any point to try to put > it to vanilla. also there are other devices like tablets (like the > wacom stuff), joysticks, touchpads etc. which are cursed with > similiar problem - they appear as 'mere' serial device, they 'just' > stream the data, yet each of them speaks bit different language. and > then - they all seem to do quite same thing... xyz/buttons... > ...except perhaps some 'universal' driver could be created, which > would have option to transcode inbetween various input devices like > those internally... so 'desperate users' could just tinker with > translation rules , rather than having to modify driver itself (even > though it might seem so simple...)
yeah, that is exactly what the evdev kernel interface is for :) Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
