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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usbtouchscreen, 2.6.25
2008/9/24 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:04:55AM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>> Obviously that depends on how you define "better" :-) The problem I'm
>> facing is that with the X driver there is no way to change calibration
>> without restarting X several times, which isn't acceptable for the
>> application we're developing. Sure, I could fix the X driver to allow
>> run-time changes to the calibration parameters, but that's a very
>> large task.
>
> This is the sort of thing that input device properties were added for.
> If you're able to use 1.5 of the X server, it's not a huge body of work
> to add this functionality.

Well, 1.5 isn't an option for me. But this does remove the main
problem with handling calibration in X. So, I guess that means my
patch shouldn't be applied. I'll continue to use it in-house for a
while, but it won't be a long term solution.

Thanks,
Søren
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