evdev input module and multiple X screen support

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Fri Dec 9 20:37:19 PST 2011


On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:47:10PM -0500, Curtis Rubel wrote:
> Hello xorg...
> 
> Can someone tell me if multiple X screen support is planned for
> the evdev input module?
> 
> We have a number of multiple X screen systems here running Xorg using
> the older evtouch input library and from what I can see it appears this
> module is no longer supported and being replaced by the evdev module.
> Is this the case or has the evtouch input library just not been
> updated yet??
> 
> Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated...as the touch
> screen vendor
> ELO does not support multiple USB touchscreens on a single system...

input drivers don't do multi-screen handling (anymore), it's all handled by
the server now. See the documentation here:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/XInputCoordinateTransformationMatrixUsage
 
Cheers,
  Peter



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