This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

These attachments are available in the static archive:

• Adds multitouch support for evdev input via mtdev (SDL2-evdev-mtdev.patch, text/plain, 2014-09-02 11:45:21 +0000, 18674 bytes)
• add evdev touch support (multitouch.patch, text/plain, 2015-05-09 01:34:21 +0000, 7922 bytes)

Reported in version: HG 2.1
Reported for operating system, platform: Linux, ARM

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2014-09-02 11:45:21 +0000, Tobias Himmer wrote:

Created attachment 1858
Adds multitouch support for evdev input via mtdev

The proposed patch will implement multitouch support for the evdev input module, currently used by the Raspberry PI.
mtdev is added as an optional dependency. It will only be used for devices reported to be touchscreens. Without it, no multitouch device is supported.

A few other things that would be changed in the existing behavior:

• The udev module will additionally report touchscreen devices.
• There won't be separate events for x and y movements. They get cached and reported on the next SYN_REPORT.
• Non-event devices (like /dev/input/mouse0) will be ignored. Previously they have been read and erroneously interpreted as event devices.

Multitouch coordinates are currently reported in window/screen coordinates - not normalized between 0.0 and 1.0 - to match the X11 behavior. (Bug 2307)

This is tested by sending multitouch events to the kernel via uinput as I do not have an actual multitouch device.

On 2014-09-02 12:27:29 +0000, Gabriel Jacobo wrote:

Thanks, this is great! I'll be reviewing this patch after 2.0.4 is out.

On 2014-09-02 13:42:41 +0000, Alex Szpakowski wrote:

(In reply to Tobias Himmer from comment # 0)

Multitouch coordinates are currently reported in window/screen coordinates -
not normalized between 0.0 and 1.0 - to match the X11 behavior. (Bug 2307)

That doesn't match the Android/iOS/Mac/Windows behaviour or the SDL documentation or public header file comments, though.

On 2015-05-09 01:34:21 +0000, Michael Weber wrote:

Created attachment 2152
add evdev touch support

I didn't realize somebody already worked on this, but here is my version of the patch that adds support for multitouch for evdev.

This version matches the 0.0 -> 1.0 span for x and y coordinates by looking up the min/max values of the input device via ioctl.

On 2017-08-14 05:11:37 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

Is there a reason to use the mtdev support over the raw evdev support? Should we use mtdev and fall back to evdev if it's not available?