How to get xinput reflect evdev driver's absinfo changes ?

[Yann Cantin]

Hi,

>> So, is there a way to adapt xinput's valuators, or even to entirely disable scaling, as the
>> kernel driver will throw valid screen coordinates ?
>  
> the evdev driver updates the axis ranges internally, but the server has (for
> historical reasons) no facilities to update the axis range of a device at
> runtime yet. So evdev simply scales the new range into the given range. If
> the kernel changes at runtime, evdev has no way to detect this, and afaik
> there's no kernel API to be notified of this either.

Ok.

Is it OK and safe to leave a 0-65535 range by default ?

Thanks,
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