Neonode low-level access

[Paul Fox]

gonzalo wrote:
 > Should be a a way to get this info, if not I don't know how this demo can
 > work:
 > 
 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-C42PGoDqY
 > 
 > I am more than interested to get the piano working

i'll push harder on the vendor for this.

paul

 > 
 > Gonzalo
 > 
 > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi Bert,
 > >
 > > On 8 Nov 2012, at 14:38, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
 > >
 > > > How can I get at low-level data from the XO-4's touch screen in Linux?
 > > I'm thinking of the actual light levels of all the sensors around the edges.
 > >
 > > Unfortunately not at the moment, as far as I'm aware of (happy to be
 > > proven wrong). It was on the feature design list at an early stage of the
 > > dev cycle (so that we could implement things like a multi-touch piano) but
 > > time went to the primary use case and no driver work was done exposing this
 > > data, as far as I can tell. There are some parameters exposed under
 > > /sys/module/zforce/parameters, but nothing like the light level data.
 > > Perhaps something to push for in the next cycle?
 > >
 > > Regards,
 > > --Gary
 > >
 > > > Certain apps could benefit from this - e.g. many of Neonode's own
 > > impressive demos could not be implemented using only the X11 events I get
 > > in Sugar.
 > > >
 > > > - Bert -
 > > >
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