From: Michael Thayer <Michael.Thayer@Sun.COM>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreen emulation to the Lifebook driver
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:44:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267562688.2441.7.camel@michael-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100225101705.GF10823@core.coreip.homeip.net>
Hello Dmitry,
Le jeudi 25 février 2010 à 02:17 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit :
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:46:29PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote:
> > Le mercredi 24 février 2010 à 02:02 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit :
> > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:55:33PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure, if we ended up doing a completely new device, how different it
> > > > would end up being. Emulating a touchscreen or a tablet makes sense for us as
> > > > these are both something known, which will work with existing systems without
> > > > too much tweaking
> > > > [snip]
> > > But the virtual mouse is not a touchscreen or a tablet, it behaves
> > > differently.
> > What would you suggest emulating that exists in the real world?
>
> There are not many real devices that have teh same characteristics as
> virtual mouse generating absolute coordinates. Umm, the closest would be
> a wacom tablet when used with its own mouse.
We decided in the end to emulate a USB tablet, as some other virtualisers do.
It works well out of the box with recent Linux distributions, and while older
ones recognise it as a touchpad (in fact they use it through /dev/input/mice),
it still provides a reasonable user experience until the user has installed our
guest drivers.
Thank you again for your comments and assistance.
Regards,
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-23 11:13 [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreen emulation to the Lifebook driver Michael Thayer
2010-02-23 17:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-23 20:55 ` Michael Thayer
2010-02-24 10:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-24 11:46 ` Michael Thayer
2010-02-25 10:17 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-02 20:44 ` Michael Thayer [this message]
2010-03-02 21:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-02 22:00 ` Michael Thayer
2010-03-02 22:39 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-03-02 23:13 ` Michael Thayer
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