Bug 12425

It reminds me of:
< bgoglin> daniels: do you know why magictouch does not have a XF86ModuleData/XF86ModuleVersionInfo as the other drivers?
< daniels> bgoglin: wow.  i assume that means that it's incapable of actually, y'know, working.

You're probably the first one to try this driver for a long time :)

Does it mean I can't hope any help on that?

No, it just means that this driver really needs to be fixed since there is no way it could work for anybody right now.

I can confirm this bug on my machine. I've also got a Keytec MagicTouch but with the USB connector.I'd be interested in helping fix this--sniffing the binary ETouch driver that shipped with the screen, testing or doing not-too-complicated changes to the code. I have a friend who can translate Italian if that's needed (a lot of the comments are in Italian). I don't suppose there's any documentation or examples from other drivers of what is wrong and how to fix it. If there is, I might be able to fumble around applying the information and accidentally fix the stuff.

I'm running a Gentoo system with xorg-server-1.4-r1, xf86-input-magictouch-1.0.0.5 and kernel 2.6.22-r6.

The same trouble with Fedora-9 and Suse 10.3-11

This trouble can be easy detected even if you haven't 
any real magictouch devices: just describe it in xorg.conf, 
start Xorg and get error message
(EE Module magictouch does not have a magictouchModuleData data object)

Just had a quick peek at the driver and I don't think this driver was ever
even close to working since the initial git import.

Unless someone actually steps up and writes the code, don't expect this driver
to work. I'll actually push for it to be removed from the xorg module set
until it is working.

Let's not pretend that we'll ever fix it...

(In reply to comment #8)
> Let's not pretend that we'll ever fix it...
> 

It is quite easy 

- to port respective driver from XFree 4.7.99
- to build driver from manufacturer's sources (there is  
even one common driver for USB and COM)

I did both items. So, drivers can be build and loaded 
without any warnings/errors. But bouth drivers works incorrectly 
with my magictouch ProEX touchscreen. I am not able to calibrate device. 
So, probably I need some specs and-or suggestions from manyfacturer or 
from experienced touchscreen driver writer.

reopening then.

You need to submit the patches though, preferably by attaching them to this bugreport.

Created attachment 18951 [details]
magictouch driver for Xorg 7.3 ported from Xfree 4.7.99

Original driver of Xorg can't be loaded. it seems to be completely obsoleted. I trivially ported current XFree 4.7.99 driver to Xorg 7.3. There are 2 files to replace respective files in original xorg magictouch driver package. 

Build is OK, loading is OK. Real work with my ProEX controller failed probably due to troubles with calibration or obsoleted algorithms in driver. 

So, this driver has to be tested more carefully by manufaturer. I can't do it because there are no public specs available for me to rewrite this driver.

BTW: I have built manufactiurer's "absolute" driver under Xorg 7.3. It works with COM controllers too. There are different source codes but the same trouble with my ProEX (COM) controller - can't use in spite of succesfull build and loading.

As of 2009-02-17 (git commit 09d1a226527c50a730d8eba2a7626bbea980a65c) this driver is marked as unmaintained and configure set to fail. This is a trivial bug (it just requires a rename of a var, if I recall correctly), there's no maintainer for this driver.

I'm closing this as WONTFIX since I doubt we'll see a patch. Even if that was fixed, there may be other problems.

If you don't like this, or you want to be the maintainer for magictouch, then feel free to reopen this.