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

[Lars Engels]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:39:12AM -0500, 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!

I might be about time to re-name webcamd to something else.
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