Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Subpixel accuracy - lw conf script bug?

[David De La H. G. <dav...@gm...>]

Radek wrote:

> So, Xorg *supports* it, but it's not working. As far as I know, the
> whole 1.4 branch of X server is affected, and the fixed version won't
> be included in a stable release any time soon.


Well, the more gung-ho distros (see: fedora 9) are already shipping 1.5
release candidates*, and there's one in debian/experimental and
ubuntu/intrepid too, but:

Errr. It looks like the xorg xserver 1.4.2 release actually included a
version of Magnus' rescaling fix.  However, the linuxwacom configure
script doesn't know that.  It probably should?

If you're running xorg xserver 1.4.2**, configure linuxwacom with

./configure --disable-quirk-tablet-rescale

and you get hires coords. Though I guess it's possible that there are
other problems with 1.4.x that merit the quirk setting, Magnus and/or
Ping would know better.

* Though there may be new bugs there, of course...
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037528.html
"[xinput] coordinate system of root/x/y" from Thomas Jaeger

** should be able to do an "X -version" at the command line, it outputs
server version and exits rather than trying to open the display.