Neonode low-level access

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 2012-11-08, at 17:01, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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

The piano is exactly what I was thinking about :)

- Bert -

> 
>> 
>> 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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