From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FSQ4m-0007gt-Hl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:54:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FSQ4l-0007gG-Ly for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:54:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FSQ4l-0007gA-Ba for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:54:55 -0400 Received: from [32.97.182.144] (helo=e4.ny.us.ibm.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FSQ95-0001KY-4R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:59:23 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k392siIF003631 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:54:44 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.8) with ESMTP id k392sbeO138474 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:54:37 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k392sbPe024983 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:54:37 -0400 Received: from [9.76.2.7] (sig-9-76-2-7.mts.ibm.com [9.76.2.7]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k392saQQ024980 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:54:37 -0400 Message-ID: <44387767.20105@us.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:54:31 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC terminal server? References: <443802FB.9060700@win4lin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Leonardo E. Reiter wrote: > > >> this virtual Wacom tablet you refer to... is there a [free or built-in] >> Windows 2000/XP driver associated with it that supports either no >> acceleration and/or absolute positioning? >> > > Frankly, I do not know if they are free. But as nobody pays me to play > with QEmu, I do not care about Windows so much. And the Wacom drivers for > Linux are free. > > BTW I prefer a virtual wacom tablet to Summagraphics, since kudzu (the > hardware detection which is used in Knoppix) can detect it. Unfortunately > just the USB version :-( > The USB version of the wacom tablet is not documented. Only the older serial tablets are. Regards, Anthony Liguori >> If so, perhaps I can look at implementing it in QEMU in my "spare" time >> ;) Do you have a link to documentation and/or drivers? >> > > Wow! What an offer! I have some documentation somewhere, I just had a > look, and only found the Summagraphics documentation. I will look harder. > > >> If the guest OS can't be easily told to not do any acceleration and/or >> use absolute cursor positioning rather than relative moves, it's not >> that helpful to have a new type of input device. I suspect a tablet >> driver can be easily configured this way since design people who >> probably use these devices want perfect precision between pointer and >> screen - otherwise they'd probably just use a mouse/trackball. But you >> can never be sure how Microsoft (or Wacom) decided to implement the >> Windows version of the driver. >> > > My favourite cartoonist, Jamiri, is very proud of his Wacom tablet. IIRC, > it has an integrated LCD display. So, I assume absolute positioning is > automatically switched on with that tablet. > > >> The mouse sync solution we have in Win4Lin Pro is okay, but it's a bit >> slow and I'd like to do something much cleaner. Of course if I do the >> wacom tablet implementation, it will be open source and part of QEMU >> itself. >> >> Thanks! >> > > Thank you! > > Ciao, > Dscho > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel >