Hi, Alan. Thanks so much for the incredibly rapid response. We're just doing an input driver. We'd love to do Xorg on our SPARC system, but the installation specifically loads Xsun when the uname comes up as sun4u.
Also, the Very Big client buys a lot of Ultra 25's and wants the driver for the standard X on the system. We've ported the driver to various Linuxes and X86-based Solaris without problem. After a bit of web browsing, I found that Glasser Whitley Limited indicates that they are: "GWL is the primary source in Europe for touch screen solutions in the Unix (Workstation, Xterminal & PC-based Unix environments). Our driver software allows mouse driven applications to use touch as well as mouse without ANY application software modifications." And they list "SUN OS 4. I.x and SUN Solaris 2.x (All Sun workstations)" as among their supported platforms, which gave us initial hope we could support two corepointers. Thanks again, J -----Original Message----- From: Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM [mailto:alan.coopersm...@sun.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:11 PM To: Jeffery Bahr Cc: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] Problem with Touch Screen Drive for Xsun Jeffery Bahr wrote: > We are developing a kernel and X driver for Solaris on SPARC systems, > using Sun Studio 12. We?re using the SUNWxwddk and the document > OpenWindows Server Device Developer?s Guide. > > These seems to be considerably more difficult than what we did for > Solaris and OpenSolaris for the X86. One of the problems that we have > is that we can?t figure out how to have both the mouse and touch screen > capability (as core pointers) simultaneously from a desktop (such as CDE). I don't think Xsun allows multiple devices to register as the core pointer at the same time, but I haven't dug through that code in a couple of years. Are you doing a graphics driver or just input? If you're providing the graphics driver, and only targeting Solaris 10 or later, I'd just use Xorg on SPARC as well. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
