Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:57:22 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to design a tablet driver? Message-ID: <47CF5D92.5040001@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20080306125012.X34358@klein.bigpond.com> References: <47CF4AFD.5050708@chuckr.org> <20080306125012.X34358@klein.bigpond.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Ross wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: BTW, I still do need that discussion of USB graphic tablets, so please don;'t let that little hijacking (I'm sure done unintentionally) side track you. I need some pointers on interfacing things that aren't relative in nature (as mice are), and this might be quite interesting (least, I do hope so). > >> I'm suggesting this because I'm very, very confused as to how I would >> figure out what the screen size is for a vty. If I gotta do a absolute gig >> on a bty, then I gotta find some way to ask the size of the cry, and get me >> driver in the list of those to be notified if the size of a vty changes. > > I am not really an expert in this area. > > For personal interest I looked yesterday into the libvgl (e.g. > VGLMouseStatus(1) and the other functions mentioned there). It seems to > cooperate with syscons including mouse support. > > Somehow (for me "by magic" - I do not know how) Xorg seems to recognize a > system mouse that is configured for the terminal. If someone explains this > magic it may be helpful for you. > > My interest came from another angle. I tried to find out whether FreeBSD's > infrastructure does not support displaying of more than one VTs at the > time, as someone claimed. I would like to configure my laptop to use the > small internal monitor as a text console while the external monitor is > serving X. > > Regards > Peter > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHz12Sz62J6PPcoOkRApDmAKChrMrNWwPdyMgWdl2bQsO14XYEJgCgjUqG 86jZ7YgbIwqDjgMQwzplbQ0= =yNeB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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