From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FSbce-0004Ts-Md for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:14:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FSbce-0004Tg-8e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:14:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSbce-0004Td-6c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:14:40 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FSbh5-0008Tc-GK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:19:15 -0400 Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (jma-box.student.umd.edu [129.2.253.219]) by po1.wam.umd.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k39FEdNm023541 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 11:14:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 11:14:38 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Absolute USB-HID device musings (was Re: VNC Terminal Server) Message-ID: <20060409151438.GB4995@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <443802FB.9060700@win4lin.com> <44381AE0.1020106@wasp.net.au> <443825D8.3080602@win4lin.com> <44388F43.20207@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44388F43.20207@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:36:19PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > I was looking through the Xorg evdev driver and it doesn't appear to > support absolute coordinate reporting. evdev is how the USB mouse would > show up to userspace. A little googling confirmed it for me: Doesn't look like a major issue. Sounds like someone is working on making evdev support absolute coordinates, and in the worse case it would be really trival to use something like malc_'s patch in order to make it work. As long as the closed source OSes support it, I think we should go for it. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.