XO touchpad

[Ross Andrews]

That's all I'm after, really. Making an application that uses it  
before the stable branch has drivers for it would be somewhat pointless.

On Dec 24, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote:

> Ross Andrews wrote:
>> I got my laptop through G1G1 last week, and I've been trying to  
>> play  with all the neat facets of the hardware, but I'm unable to  
>> get the  other mode of the touchpad (the stylus mode) to do  
>> anything. Is there  a particular activity that uses it? Is there  
>> some way I can tell  Pygame to read it, so I can play with it that  
>> way? I figured that  Paint would use it, but it doesn't seem to.
>>
>
> One way to exercise the stylus mode is via the firmware selftests.   
> Turn on via the power button, then immediately press and hold the  
> big round directional button in the left direction.
>
> That will start a sequence of hardware diagnostics.  Eventually it  
> will get to the touchpad test.  That test displays dots  
> corresponding to samples received from the touchpad - blue dots for  
> fingertip mode and yellow for stylus mode.  Fingernail pressure  
> works as a stylus surrogate.
>
> This selftest feature is of course useless for creating new  
> applications that use the device, but it can demonstrate that the  
> hardware is functional.
>
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