@Bryce,

Yes some pointers on PPA packaging would be appreciated.

I will check what the distribution terms are and get back to you.

Thanks a lot,
Dan

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Bryce Harrington
<email address hidden>wrote:

> djp, you mentioned earlier an interest in posting this to a PPA.  Do you
> need help with this?  Do you have a plan in place for how you want to be
> distributing it to go into the PPA?
>
> I think once that is sorted out, it would make it straightforward for us
> to even consider incorporating this into multiverse with other closed
> source drivers, which would make it even easier for Ubuntu users to
> install it.  I'm not sure what the process is for getting additional
> closed source drivers accepted there, so that may or may not be
> feasible, but once it's packaged for PPA I'd be willing to investigate
> for you, if you'd like.
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Handling NextWindow Touchscreen (multitouch)
> + Handling NextWindow Touchscreen (multitouch) via the nwfermi
> (proprietary) driver
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379313
>
> Title:
>  Handling NextWindow Touchscreen (multitouch) via the nwfermi (proprietary)
> driver
>
> Status in “xserver-xorg-input-evdev” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
>
> Ubuntu 9.04/8.10 and probably other.
>
> The NextWindow touch screen is used on the HP TouchSmart systems however
> doesn't work out of the box on 8.10 or 9.04.
>
> Firstly it is allocated to a synaptic touchpad driver initially which is
> wrong, but can be overcome with the appropriate HAL fdi to change to evdev.
>
> Secondly (and this is a most likely a problem of either the hardware or X),
> it reports X, Y values using ABS_RX, ABS_Z rather than the expected ABS_X,
> ABS_Y. The evtouch driver will work because it accepts these as
> alternatives.
>
> Lastly, because the system is multi-touch aware it reports to the xserver
> that it has buttons. This causes it to be misclassified by evdev as a
> touchpad rather than a touchscreen.
>
> The following patch fixes the problem for me but is obviously not a general
> solution. This is against packaged version 1:2.1.1-1ubuntu4:
>
> --- src/evdev.c.orig    2010-05-22 16:08:14.000000000 +1000
> +++ src/evdev.c 2009-05-22 16:09:30.000000000 +1000
> @@ -382,10 +382,12 @@
>
>        case EV_ABS:
>            switch (ev.code) {
> +            case ABS_Z:
>            case ABS_X:
>                pEvdev->abs_x = value;
>                abs = 1;
>                break;
> +            case ABS_RX:
>            case ABS_Y:
>                pEvdev->abs_y = value;
>                abs = 1;
> @@ -1368,11 +1370,11 @@
>         xf86Msg(X_INFO, "%s: Found x and y absolute axes\n", pInfo->name);
>        pEvdev->flags |= EVDEV_ABSOLUTE_EVENTS;
>        if (TestBit(BTN_TOUCH, key_bitmask)) {
> -            if (num_buttons) {
> +/*          if (num_buttons) {
>                 xf86Msg(X_INFO, "%s: Found absolute touchpad\n",
> pInfo->name);
>                 pEvdev->flags |= EVDEV_TOUCHPAD;
>                 pEvdev->old_x = pEvdev->old_y = -1;
> -            } else {
> +            } else */ {
>                 xf86Msg(X_INFO, "%s: Found absolute touchscreen\n",
> pInfo->name);
>                 pEvdev->flags |= EVDEV_TOUCHSCREEN;
>                 pEvdev->flags |= EVDEV_BUTTON_EVENTS;
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.1.1-1ubuntu4 [modified:
> usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so]
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version
> 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009
> SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
>
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