Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Unable to map tablet to single screen

[Peter H. <pet...@wh...>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 07:13:50PM +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> >>Am I doing something wrong?  How are you supposed to get the cursor to always
> >>jump to a specific screen when the stylus is moved on the tablet?
> >
> >what X server version is this?
> >
> >you need at least 1.11 for the absolute coordinate fixes and on Friday I
> >noticed a bug that caused weird coordinate offsets especially when switching
> >between mice and touchpads.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply!  This is with 1.11.4.  I'm not sure from
> reading your bug report whether the tablet is supposed to be
> reporting desktop-wide coordinates or not.  As I change MapToOutput
> to different heads the range of movement varies - I can cover 25% to
> 50% of a given screen depending on what output I have set with
> MapToOutput, but the cursor doesn't jump to the monitor I want it
> to.  From reading your bug it sounds like tablet movement is not
> supposed to be restricted to a single monitor?

by default, the tablet should map to the whole desktop, and MapToOutput
should work as expected, mapping to that specific output.

I'll try to test with multiple nvidia cards asap, i admit this is completely
untested (tested on one card only so far). maybe it's a corner-case.

send me your xorg.conf please [off-list if you prefer
 
Cheers,
  Peter