From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 30 02:11:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28815 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 02:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28798 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 02:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id LAA04241; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:07:50 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:07:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Robert Swindells cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mgp-users@mew.org Subject: Re: graphic tablet experiecne ? In-Reply-To: <199809300823.BAA22478@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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