From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mon Feb 22 18:13:03 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382C7AB05DF for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:13:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from mail.turbocat.net (mail.turbocat.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:d16:4514::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01701116D for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:13:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from laptop015.home.selasky.org (unknown [62.141.129.119]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 07F231FE022; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:13:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Touchscreen support (was Re: new computer, strange usb messages at boot) To: Larry Rosenman References: <20160220051951.GA47875@lrosenman-dell.lerctr.org> <20160220120401.GA91220@kib.kiev.ua> <20160220122416.GA1026@lrosenman-dell.lerctr.org> <2575cfd714188f7ffbc873cb5d87cc97@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <56CA6F67.4000001@yahoo.com> <56CAB4A7.8080604@selasky.org> <56CB39B0.3020307@yahoo.com> <56CB3C74.7050103@selasky.org> <2502f08287eabc10f35de01adedafd41@thebighonker.lerctr.org> Cc: Anthony Jenkins , freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Hans Petter Selasky Message-ID: <56CB5042.5060701@selasky.org> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:15:30 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2502f08287eabc10f35de01adedafd41@thebighonker.lerctr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:13:03 -0000 On 02/22/16 19:11, Larry Rosenman wrote: > On 2016-02-22 10:51, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> On 02/22/16 17:39, Anthony Jenkins wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 02/22/2016 02:11 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >>>> On 02/22/16 03:16, Anthony Jenkins wrote: >>>>> Yes. I have an eGalax touchscreen and it's doing the same thing. The >>>>> number of items it's reporting is 256 (according to my preliminary >>>>> debugging), causing the warning. I think these things are a special >>>>> subclass of HID for multitouch touchscreens which we don't support >>>>> (yet). >>>> >>>> /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd will most likely attach if invoked >>>> manually, to this device and provide an event device for you! >>>> >>>> --HPS >>> >>> Okay that's /amazing/, and not at all intuitive! I mean I'd expect >>> multimedia/webcamd to only attach to "video" devices, but lo and behold >>> I get a /dev/input/event0 device which spits out gibberish when >>> cat(1)'ed and I touch the screen! >>> >>> My intentions were to port Linux's hid-multitouch device in whole to >>> FreeBSD (it's what attaches to my eGalax device and probably to OP's >>> touchscreen device) and add support for the device to moused(8), but >>> it's not very high on my priority list... >>> >> >> Hi, >> >> If you apply these patches, will work with your X-org :-) >> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196678 >> >> --HPS Hi, Run: webcamd -l Then find your device, and run that command line. --HPS