X server testing

[Thomas Jaeger]

Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 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

The current development version of the wacom driver doesn't compile at
all on recent X servers.  I'm using the patches that I posted in this
thread:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200906181709.56283.neitzke%40physics.harvard.edu&forum_name=linuxwacom-devel

Tom