Touchscreen support (was Re: new computer, strange usb messages at boot)

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 02/22/16 17:39, Anthony Jenkins wrote:
>
>
> On 02/22/2016 02:11 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 02/22/16 03:16, Anthony Jenkins wrote:
>>> Yes.  I have an eGalax touchscreen and it's doing the same thing. The
>>> number of items it's reporting is 256 (according to my preliminary
>>> debugging), causing the warning.  I think these things are a special
>>> subclass of HID for multitouch touchscreens which we don't support
>>> (yet).
>>
>> /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd will most likely attach if invoked
>> manually, to this device and provide an event device for you!
>>
>> --HPS
>
> Okay that's /amazing/, and not at all intuitive!  I mean I'd expect
> multimedia/webcamd to only attach to "video" devices, but lo and behold
> I get a /dev/input/event0 device which spits out gibberish when
> cat(1)'ed and I touch the screen!
>
> My intentions were to port Linux's hid-multitouch device in whole to
> FreeBSD (it's what attaches to my eGalax device and probably to OP's
> touchscreen device) and add support for the device to moused(8), but
> it's not very high on my priority list...
>

Hi,

If you apply these patches, will work with your X-org :-)

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196678

--HPS