Re: [Opie] Fwd: Unstable pointing?

Ok, many thanks Erik, I'll pass this one over to the 2210 people I know -
and see if they have any comment....

Many thanks

Carl.

On 6/18/06, Erik Hovland <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 04:26:45PM +0100, Carl Beech wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Hope I've got the right place - here goes.....
> >
> > I've just installed opie on my iPaq 2210, and when I'm using the pen,
> the
> > recognition seems to keep having glitches. For example, when writing in
> > sketch book, I can write a word at the bottom of the screen, and then at
> the
> > end, when I take the pen off the screen, it gets a 'false reading' of
> pen
> > position at the top of the screen - which would suddenly put a line up
> to
> > the whole screen. This makes handwriting recognition effectively
> unusable
> > because it keeps getting false readings....?
> >
> > I know the device isn't faulty because it works fine under windows - my
> > guess is that windows is performing some form of dampening, e.g. if the
> > pointer moves 'impossibly' far from one clock tick to the next while
> > writing, then ignore the input....
> >
> > I've read that opie doesn't use X, and so presumably this is something
> that
> > needs to be written to the opie list directly.....
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar problem...?
>
> You might want to ask on the h2200-port list or kernel-discuss.
>
> I will say that h2200 support in Opie is a farely new thing and it might
> be likely that the tslib support is not quite right.
>
> But my h5550 occassionally shows glitches in Opie with the handwriting
> applet and the companion chip in h2200 and h5550 are very similar. So I
> am not surprised that you see this issue.
>
> E
>
> --
> Erik Hovland
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>

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