Re: Touchscreen coordinates mangled on X/GPE in RC4

Olivier Berger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Justin Patrin" <[email protected]> writes:

> On 5/26/06, Olivier Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> FYI, the desynchronisation of my touchscreen and mouse movements may
>> have been cause by the fact I had a USB mouse connected to the Z at
>> the same time...
>>
>> Whenever X is started and the mouse connected, the touchscreen won't
>> be useable anymore (odd mouse movements)... and in this case, it seems
>> launching xtscal is a bad idea since it will lead to almost locking X
>> : no way to click in the right place neither with the stylus, nor with
>> the USB mouse... unless there's an escape combination to quit xtscal,
>> maybe (that could be a valuable improvement to add some ? with the
>> keybord, for instance ?) :(
>>
>
> Well, you can't click somewhere on the touchscreen with a
> mouse...you're calibration the *touchscreen*, not the mouse. I could
> see the mouse possibly causing problems, although it probably
> shouldn't as the mouse and touchscreen *should* be different devices.
> I'd say file a bug and see what happens.
>

You mean the bug would say something like : "whenever X runs for an
external USB mouse, xtscal should nevertheless be working with correct
coordinates with the touscreen/stylus ?"

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER (OpenPGP: 1024D/B4C5F37F)
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