Re: rewriting touch driver from XFree86 3.3.6 to 4.2.0

Stefan Strobl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Quentin Olson wrote:

> I was told that the wizard pen driver works for the USB version of 
> this controller:
>
> http://www.stud.fit.vutbr.cz/~xhorak28/index.php.iso-8859-1?page=WizardPen_Driver 
> <http://www.stud.fit.vutbr.cz/%7Exhorak28/index.php.iso-8859-1?page=WizardPen_Driver>

> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:20 +0200, Stefan Strobl wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>I just joined this mailinglist and hope this topic hasn't been discussed 
>>to many times before.
>>
>>I've got an existing touch driver for the touch controller UR7HCTS2 from 
>>semtech (which is connected via the PS/2 interface) for Linux kernel 2.4 
>>and XFree86 3.3.6. Now I need to rewrite the driver for XFree86 4.2.0 
>>and have some problems. It starts with include files such as 
>>"xf86Procs.h" and "xf86_Config.h" that don't seem to exist in 4.2.0 
>>anymore. This is my first attempt to write a driver for XFree86 at all.
>>
>>Can anybody point out a good documentation on how to rewrite a driver 
>>from 3.3.6 to 4.2.0?
>>
>>Usually, is it a lot of work to rewrite such a driver?
>>
>>Has anybody experience with the UR7HCTS2 controller?
>>
Thanks. Unfortuantelly the wizard pen works only for kernel 2.6 while 
I'm using kernel 2.4.
I found a driver at www.touch-base.com which should work (haven't tried) 
but they charge you...

Stefan
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