[Gta04-owner] [QtMoko] QX touchscreen input do not work

[Neil Jerram]

NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de> writes:

> I spent a while looking into this and my conclusion is that while the frame
> buffer does support rotation, the Xorg driver for the omap3 framebuffer
> doesn't hook into that.  Also I couldn't find any evidence of ongoing
> development of the omap3 Xorg driver.
> So I'm guessing that to make 'xrandr' work on the GTA04 will take some fairly
> serious hacking in Xorg driver code.
>
> I wish I had time to do that ... though to be honest, if I did have the time
> I'd probably spend it on something else :-(

It seems that xf86-video-omap is going to be the way forward (rather
than -omapfb or -omap3) and that xrandr support has just recently gone
into it:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-omap/
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1026975.html

For QX in QtMoko, if I've understood correctly, I think this will be a
reason for upgrading to wheezy (when it's released).

      Neil