Re: [Touchd-devel] Touchd-devel Digest, Vol 3, Issue 7

[Henrik R. <ry...@eu...>]

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 19:06 +0000, Alex Karpenko wrote:
> Oh wow, I was not aware that someone already wrote a kernel module
> driver for the multitouch trackpads!

I almost surprised myself :-) The latest version (0.31) contains some
new findings on the device itself; for instance, it seems to have twos
set of finger size sensors, two sets of force sensors, and a
finger-shape orientation sensor.

> Good work Henrik! Sorry for getting offtopic, I'll try it out on my
> penryn macbook pro and get back to you.

Great, I have been dying to get some input from the penryn.

On a different note: I sent a message to the touchd-devel list twice
during the past week, but it seems it got stuck on the way?

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> Alex
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> > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:03:11 -0700
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> > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:49:47 +0100
> > From: Anthony Callegaro <cal...@gm...>
> > Subject: Re: [Touchd-devel] Touchd-devel Digest, Vol 3, Issue 5
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> > Hey Felipe,
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> > Yes you have bcm5974 : http://web.comhem.se/rydberg/Bits/ which is a
> > attempt to do a Synaptic driver for X11. It seems to work but on
> MacBook
> > Pro I think it need an awful lot of tuning because it is quite
> unusable.
> > 
> > Other than that I was talking of the specific input hardware of Macs
> is
> > general (keyboard and trackpad). 
> > 
> > For the keyboard specific keys you have pommed as well. Which does
> the
> > keyboard back lighting as well (at least when it works :o) )
> > 
> > That's why I was wondering if we could approach these other projects
> to
> > avoid re-inventing the wheel...
> > 
> > Le jeudi 26 juin 2008 ? 16:17 +0200, Felipe Sere a ?crit :
> > > Anthony,
> > > 
> > > you mention multiple implementations of a multitouch interface...
> I
> > > have only heard of touchd. can you point me to some websites? =) I
> am
> > > not abandoning touched, I just want to see what's out there.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Felipe
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