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Subject: Re: eGalax touchscreen & HID multitouch support
To: Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com>, freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org
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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
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On 02/20/16 00:30, Anthony Jenkins via freebsd-usb wrote:
> Is anyone working on adding support for the eGalax USB touchscreen
> device, which apparently presents itself as a USB HID multitouch
> touchscreen (at least that's how Linux treats it)?  I have a laptop (HP
> Envy TouchSmart m6) with one of these puppies and I'd like to
> (eventually) add support for it (GPU, wifi and suspend/resume are ahead
> of this).
>
> How do I go about sniffing the reports from the device, short of writing
> my own libusb utility?
>
> Here's usbconfig(8)'s description:
>
> ugen1.2: <eGalaxTouch EXC7910-1037-11.01.01 eGalax Inc.> at usbus1,
> cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON (100mA)
>

Hi,

/usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd can most likely attach to this device an 
give you the Linux event device you need. Also see:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196678

--HPS