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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 1998 01:23:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mgp-users@mew.org
Subject:   Re: graphic tablet experiecne ?
Message-ID:  <199809300823.BAA22478@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199809300351.EAA07436@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> (message from Luigi Rizzo on Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:51:58 %2B0100 (MET))

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>does anyone have experience with graphic tablets -- particularly with
>cheap serial units ?

No experience, but I have poked around a bit in case I needed to
implement some touchscreen support.

>i have tried one (a kid's model, "Wacky pad") and it seems not to talk
>any protocol recognized by moused. This one seems to talk at 9600,
>emits 5-byte strings with some strange absolute coordinate encoding
>which i managed to translate into a reasonable x,y format with a little
>bit of debugging, but i am wondering if there is some standard about
>this.

Is there anything like it in the supported mice for XFree86 ?

Robert


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