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From: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: HID regression: Quanta touchscreen, device ID: 0408:3008
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:42:14 -0700
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On 04/23/2012 08:34 AM, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> The problem relies in the upper layers and not in the kernel: nobody
> took the time to code a X.org driver that handles true multitouch
> direct devices. You can eventually use the synaptics one, but you will
> have to deal with absolute/relative coordinates, and the last time I
> played with it, it was not convenient as I was not able to make GDM
> use the absolute coordinate system (I kow I should have patched the
> synaptics X.org driver).

X now supports direct multitouch devices using the X evdev driver. This
may be a bug in the X server.

-- Chase