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

[Maximilian F. <max...@go...>]

Am 03.12.2012 21:18, schrieb Ping Cheng:
> As Jason mentioned before, we found an issue for max_touches in X
> driver. Without my patch (not merged yet), I could see different number
> of max touches for the same touch device. However, "Max number of
> touches: 5" for E6 is quite an incident, especially if you always see 5.
> There might be something we need to look deeper.
>
> Do you mind to apply a few patches to the latest xf86-input-wacom and
> test the driver on your system? Let me know and I'll forward the patches
> offline. I am curious about the output.

Yes of course. I'd be happy to help. I can join you on IRC if you want 
immediate results :))

> I do not think faking x/y values is a good way to go. Once there are
> more than two fingers, we only get a bounding box with number of touches.
>
> If your interest is mainly in gestures, modifying the kernel driver to
> report touches as ABS_TOOL_*TAP events for all five fingers and let
> xf86-input-synaptics driver take care of your device can be a solution.
> Again, someone has to work on the code.

I see where this is going. I might have found a new hobby... ;-)

Max