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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:51:00 +0100
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Touchscreen support (was Re: new computer, strange usb messages at boot)
Message-ID:  <56CB3C74.7050103@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <56CB39B0.3020307@yahoo.com>
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>

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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



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