From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 03:03:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C241065670 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 03:03:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB948FC16 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 03:03:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 19424 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2008 03:03:47 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Mar 2008 03:03:47 -0000 Message-ID: <47CF5D92.5040001@chuckr.org> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:57:22 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Ross References: <47CF4AFD.5050708@chuckr.org> <20080306125012.X34358@klein.bigpond.com> In-Reply-To: <20080306125012.X34358@klein.bigpond.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to design a tablet driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:03:47 -0000 -----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-----