Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] How to find out what is really supported on 056a:00e6

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On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Maximilian Federle <
max...@go...> wrote:

> [...]
>
That's pretty much what I am looking for. Naturally I'd be completely
> satisfied if I could use the the hardware to the full extent, even if
> that means "only" two finger touch. I am just irritated by the fact that
> I saw this "5 touches supported" message in xinput output.


Favux and Jason beat me to the list. You can tell we have a
very supportive team here. Now comes my version of the reply. Hope it is
the final -;).

The kernel patch was submitted by Manoj Iyer [1] last year. I do not have
an E6 system to work on. But I did acknowledge the patch since I think
considering E6 as a 2 finger touch device is a reasonably decision. We do
not support bounding box in X driver anyway.

What steps did you use to see the "5 touches supported" message? I'd like
to see if there is anything we can do about it.


> I looked for info on the internet regarding the x220t and x230t
> capabilities. One claim that I found quite often was, that the x230t
> hardware supports two touches independently and 5 in some sort of
> "semi/fake" mode.
> As I haven't touched a windows OS in like 8 years I can't verify this
> fact, but I'd be interested in whether the linuxwacom project intends to
> support such "pseudo-touch" devices.
>
> Here is a youtube video of this particular touchscreen in action with up
> to 5 finger touch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoYx9QRgVDA&feature=fvsr


It is true that E6 supports 2 fingers and up to 5 "fake" finger bounding
box.


> So, what's next? I guess if it just isn't there in the code, I got as
> far as possible. Programming hardware drivers is not in my current
> skillset though, so I'd have to wait/hope/wish for someone to do it. (I
> can only send you german beer for motivational purposes... might lead to
> interesting side effects...) :(
>

Whoever has the system and is motivated to add the support will take us to
the next step. Your German beer will encourage some people to try, I am
sure ;-).

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[1]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=26fcd2a7618db6c16be6aa3e56c0f3c25381e5a3