Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:07:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk> Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mgp-users@mew.org Subject: Re: graphic tablet experiecne ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980930110642.11762N-100000@elect8> In-Reply-To: <199809300823.BAA22478@hub.freebsd.org>
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> >does anyone have experience with graphic tablets -- particularly with > >cheap serial units ? If you have the exact model number I can try and have a look in the ARC view manual. If you have a fax number I can mail you an example of a graphic tablet we had in my old Unit. That was a very strange encoding but in the end I got it to work. Would take me some time to figure out though. Nik > > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- building: 27A address: STA-ISIS, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy tel.: +39 332 78 9549 fax.: +39 332 78 9185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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