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Date:      Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:36:33 +0100
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Touchscreen support (was Re: new computer, strange usb messages at boot)
Message-ID:  <20160223083633.GO20687@e-new.0x20.net>
In-Reply-To: <56CB39B0.3020307@yahoo.com>
References:  <20160220051951.GA47875@lrosenman-dell.lerctr.org> <20160220120401.GA91220@kib.kiev.ua> <20160220122416.GA1026@lrosenman-dell.lerctr.org> <2575cfd714188f7ffbc873cb5d87cc97@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <56CA6F67.4000001@yahoo.com> <56CAB4A7.8080604@selasky.org> <56CB39B0.3020307@yahoo.com>

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:39:12AM -0500, Anthony Jenkins wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On 02/22/2016 02:11 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > On 02/22/16 03:16, Anthony Jenkins wrote:
> >> Yes.  I have an eGalax touchscreen and it's doing the same thing. The
> >> number of items it's reporting is 256 (according to my preliminary
> >> debugging), causing the warning.  I think these things are a special
> >> subclass of HID for multitouch touchscreens which we don't support
> >> (yet).
> >
> > /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd will most likely attach if invoked
> > manually, to this device and provide an event device for you!
> >
> > --HPS
>=20
> Okay that's /amazing/, and not at all intuitive!  I mean I'd expect
> multimedia/webcamd to only attach to "video" devices, but lo and behold
> I get a /dev/input/event0 device which spits out gibberish when
> cat(1)'ed and I touch the screen!

I might be about time to re-name webcamd to something else.

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