Fwd: TC1000 & Gentoo: xf86-input-tc1kpen X11 driver calibration

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From: aka. bugle <aka.bugle_at_gmail.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2008 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Tc1000-linux] TC1000 & Gentoo: xf86-input-tc1kpen X11
driver calibration
To: Václav Krpec <vaclav.krpec_at_acision.com>

On Jan 7, 2008 5:03 AM, Václav Krpec <vaclav.krpec_at_acision.com> wrote:
> Hello aka.bugle,
>
> I'm glad to hear that you also made the NVIDIA driver working;
> at least I'm not alone... :-)
> I run Linux kernel 2.6.20, so as it seems, the nvidia driver
> isn't compatible with recent kernels; what a shame. :-(
> Still, 2.6.20 supports all I need so far, so I'll probably
> be more conservative with TC1000 than with my other systems
> with Gentoo which I keep up-to-date.
>
I think I may revert to 2.6.20 from 2.6.21 If nothing else works!
>

> > The perl script (in a root console, X not running, or loaded) only
> > seems to read the stylus at the center of the screen, anywhere outside
> > of about a 3" area in the center of the screen gives no readout from
> > the pen. The digitizer is ok because the bios calibration tool
> > performs normally. Any ideas?
>
> I'd guess that the serial device settings may need some tweeking.
> The Perl script only reads the tablet serial device and decodes
> the input. If it doesn't react to pen at all, then it seems that
> there is no data available on the serial device, really.
> To be absolutely sure, you may try to uncomment lin 117 in the script;
> this way, each packet read from the device will be dumped to the screen.
>
> Maybe I did a mistake while porting David Kuehling's fpi2002 script
> to Gentoo runscript. I suggest you try David's original setup script
> first and run tc1kpen_calib.pl again; let's see what happens.
>
> If the result remains the same, you may try to use the obsolete fpi2002
> kernel module just to be sure, although I doubt that it would mean much
> of a change.
>
  I tryed removing your script (rc-update -d fpi2002.sh default) and
inserting D. Kueling's fpi2002-new.sh into the default runlevel...
    same situation... pen only recognized in center of screen w/ perl
calib utility and no pen in X.
 Also I may have to check my Udev as since its last update I lost the
device node ttyS0 and had to create it w/ a early udev rule... this
is getting awful... I may just revert everything back (kernel, Udev,
serial driver, pen Xdriver.) to get my working pen setup...

I really want the screen rotation w/ pen... so I'm determined to get
my setup in sync w/ you Vencik! What version Udev are you running?

> David (Kuehling), what do you think about it?
>
>
> To xf86-input-tc1kpen: does it do anything at all? I mean does it react
> on the pen in the 3 inches area you've written about at least? If the
> calib. utility does, then the driver should, too.
>
> Include /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf better too in your
> reports.
>
> Does the former driver tc1k-1.1 (zw1 patch maybe) work for you?
> Does it at least detect the pen movement? (For me, it did, but
> transformation of the HW coords to X screen coords was wrong).
>
> Hope we'll fix that,
>
> Regards,
>
> vencik
>

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Best Regards,
                          ~david
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                          ~david