X server testing

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:48:10PM -0400, Thomas Jaeger wrote:
> >> * My tablet's valuators (which should be absolute) are reported as
> >> having mode 3 (as opposed to XIModeAbsolute == 1 or XIModeRelative ==
> >> 0), which causes xinput to list them as relative devices.
> > 
> > I haven't been able to reproduce this, at least not with my test devices
> > from git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/testdevices.git
> > Anything special about your tablet? Can you provide me with a test device
> > that replicates this issue?
> 
> Strange, the "wacom" test device exhibits the problem for me, even
> though the "abs" device is fine (the "absrel" device doesn't list the
> absolute valuators).  This might well be a bug in the wacom driver.
> 
> ⎜   ↳ Wacom Intuos3 4x6                       	id=16	[slave  pointer  (2)]
> 	Reporting 8 classes:
> 		Class originated from: 16
> 		Buttons supported: 7
> 		Button labels: Button Left Button Middle Button Right Button Wheel Up
> Button Wheel Down Button Horiz Wheel Left Button Horiz Wheel Right
> 		Button state:
> 		Class originated from: 16
> 		Keycodes supported: 248
> 		Class originated from: 16
> 		Detail for Valuator 0:
> 		  Label: Abs X
                          ^^ I don't think wacom has axis labelling yet, so
the fact that this is even here strikes me as odd. Are you sure it's not
loading evdev? (in which case that'd be even weirder, since evdev shouldn't
add any axes for the wacom test device. A fix for that is in the pipe)

Cheers,
  Peter