xorg/driver/xf86-input-fpit - [PATCH] Don't call xf86IsCorePointer.

[David Clay]

Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008 6:52 AM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:10:42 +0200
>> Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 01:03:18AM -0200, pcpa at mandriva.com.br wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Quoting Peter Hutterer <mailinglists at who-t.net>:
>>>>         
>>>>>> http://www.nabble.com/Bug-457722%3A-xserver-xorg-input-fpit%3A-using-touchscreen-kills-x-td14492063.html
>>>>>>             
>>>>> yeah, this is bug #14057 on bugs.fdo.org.
>>>>> i just noticed that I did attach some patches to this bug that may
>>>>> fix things up.
>>>>>           
>>>>   I did some more searches, and did not find anything useful in the
>>>> first 10 google pages. So I believe there isn't much people using
>>>> X Server 1.4 with the new input api.
>>>>         
>>> I think it's more reasonable to conclude that there are very few people
>>> using fpit
>>>       
>> To my knowledge the last hardware using fpit was about Pentium 133 spec
>> and limited to 64MB.
>>     
>
> I committed a patch a few years ago from someone who added support for
> for some recent (pentium 3-ish) fujitsu tablet PCs.
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-fpit/commit/?id=ff4e6c2efd7460eee7c73120dca2656ba13ebbac
> http://www.fujitsupc.com/www/products_pentablets.shtml?products/pentablets/stylistic_3400
>
> Alex
> _______________________________________________
>   

Yeah.. I wrote a patch for it a while back. Unfortunately I dropped my 
tablet and the touchscreen broke, so I am not using it anymore!

I did help someone get it working for a Gateway notebook/tablet. Even 
added pressure sensitivity too. So someone is using it and I'd hate to 
see it go.

(Alex: sorry for the top post and I should have "Replied All")

Thanks,
Dave Clay