[RFC] PDA as a TCP graphic tablet?
Jim Gettys
jg at freedesktop.org
Thu Dec 29 09:29:11 PST 2005
X has been running on the tuxscreen, as a quick google shows.
Mathew Allum is the guilty party.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5966737838.html
On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 00:41 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a device (Tuxscreen), capable of running Linux with a
> VGA-resolution (I think) LCD display with a touchscreen. So, I had an idea
> to use it as a graphic tablet. A quick google revield no existing
> software. So, I would just code a server on the device, that would get
> events from /dev/eventX, and send them over TCP to a PC, where a client
> would just export, say, a named pipe, which X would open as a device node.
> That's all nice and simple, now, I don't know how best to present this
> device to X. The touchscreen can deliver only x, y, and pressure. The
> device has a keyboard, so, I can switch between, say, those 3 modes that
> wacom tablets use (stylus, eraser, cursor)? Don't think many have
> Tuxscreens, but a possibility to use any Linux PDA as a graphic tablet
> (ok, pretty poor, but still) would be interesting to many?
>
> So, what is the sensible way to bind to X? I would prefer not to have to
> write a new X-driver... Abusing the wacom driver would be dirty... I see a
> number of drivers in input/, but have no idea if one of them would be
> suitable for that. Don't think evdev would do? As an application I am
> thinking about Gimp.
>
> If there is already a driver I could reasonable (ab)use, ideally it should
> only use read/write on the fd. If it uses ioctl's, well, that would mean I
> would have to write a kernel driver too. Not too dramatic, but not exactly
> the ideal solution.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Guennadi
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> Guennadi Liakhovetski
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