Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:05:45 -0500 From: Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Touchscreen support (was Re: new computer, strange usb messages at boot) Message-ID: <56CB3FE9.6060005@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <56CB3C74.7050103@selasky.org> 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> <56CB3C74.7050103@selasky.org>
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On 02/22/2016 11:51 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On 02/22/16 17:39, Anthony Jenkins wrote: >> >> >> 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 >> >> 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! >> >> My intentions were to port Linux's hid-multitouch device in whole to >> FreeBSD (it's what attaches to my eGalax device and probably to OP's >> touchscreen device) and add support for the device to moused(8), but >> it's not very high on my priority list... >> > > Hi, > > If you apply these patches, will work with your X-org :-) > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196678 > > --HPS Well that's one of the higher priority items - Xorg doesn't work with my AMD Radeon video device and FreeBSD's drm2/radeonkms... I'm going to try the vesa driver today. -- Anthony Jenkins
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