Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:15:30 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Touchscreen support (was Re: new computer, strange usb messages at boot) Message-ID: <56CB5042.5060701@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <2502f08287eabc10f35de01adedafd41@thebighonker.lerctr.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> <2502f08287eabc10f35de01adedafd41@thebighonker.lerctr.org>
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On 02/22/16 19:11, Larry Rosenman wrote: > On 2016-02-22 10:51, 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 Hi, Run: webcamd -l Then find your device, and run that command line. --HPS
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