Help with evdev..

Zephaniah E. Hull warp at aehallh.com
Tue Mar 7 11:13:15 PST 2006


On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:49:49AM -0500, Michael Frey wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am trying to use a touch-screen driver that send ABS events via the  
> kernel input event subsystem(/dev/input/event4).  When trying to use  
> the evdev diver in Xorg,  I get the following error in the Xorg.log.
> 
> Bad valuators reported for device "Touchscreen0-"
> 
> 
> The log also reports the Touchscreen as the following:
> 
> (**) Touchscreen0: name: (null), phys: (null), device: /dev/input/ 
> event4, pass: 0.
> (II) evdev brain: Rescanning devices (1).
> (**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
> (**) Touchscreen0-: always reports core events
> (II) Touchscreen0-: Found 3 absolute axes.
> (II) Touchscreen0-: Configuring as pointer.
> (**) Touchscreen0-: Configuring in Absolute mode.
> (**) Touchscreen0-: AbsoluteScreen: 0.
> (II) Touchscreen0-: Found 0 relative axes.
> (II) Touchscreen0-: Configuring as pointer.
> (**) Touchscreen0-: Configuring 2 relative axes.
> (II) Touchscreen0-: Found 75 mouse buttons
> (II) Touchscreen0-: Configured 75 mouse buttons
> 
> 
> Can someone tell me what this means?  Any help would be greatly  
> appreciated.

Uh, crap.

I'll figure out what's going on there tomorrow or so, I seem to have
broken absolute devices when doing the abs to rel support.

But I have a tablet now, so I reproduce and fix it as soon as I'm awake
and have a few minutes.

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