How do I make Xglamo read directly from the touchscreen?

[Holger Freyther]

On Friday 26 December 2008 21:38:14 Andy Green wrote:

> | for evdev and the calibration data?
>
> It's a good point, is there a way to associate the input event device
> that sends coordinates with the way that you set its calibration?

With tslib? Yes. in the ts.conf you define which input_raw which device to use 
and then stack modules and its configuration on top.




> Now the arrangements in kernel that are specific to the touchscreen
> shipped give great data already, tslib seems needless.  If I understood
> what Nelson is asking, it's just about removing tslib from inbetween the
> input subsystem data and XGlamo.  Not -->

I'm glad that you respond here because I have a couple of issues with the 
current version (as much as I understand it):

	- XCalibrate Extension -> broken, so user recalibration is not working

	- We require custom machine specific code/shell/script to find the device and 
set the calibration data (e.g. the ts could be on serial as well..) which is a 
step back from a different ts.conf and pointercal... So you need a stable 
general purpose interface to configure such things (enumerable as well...)

	- Tools like ts_test, ts_print and ts_print_raw are not working. So far they 
have been valuable tools in bring up of touchscreens. But I'm willing to learn 
new tools if they exist.

	- Gosh I get old.... but why do we want to throw something away and replace 
it with something that is not yet ready? Is there a roadmap to address to the 
above points and establish a stable kernel<->user config?

	- Currently (from the sysfs interface) it looks like all this is implemented 
in one driver, with a userspace hat on I would like to wait until this is more 
generalized, with my kernel hat and iPAQ history I would be surprised if a in 
kernel calibration, linearisation will end in the kernel.


have fun
	z.