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Linux 6.10 Is Making It Much Easier To Deal With Quirky Touchscreens
Right now when dealing with quirky/buggy touchscreens a C file needs to be manually manipulated and the Linux kernel recompiled
Right now when dealing with quirky/buggy touchscreens a C file needs to be manually manipulated and the Linux kernel recompiled. Red Hat's Hans de Goede took up the challenge of improving the handling of dealing with quirky touchscreens and making it much easier for setting touchscreen properties in iterating through possible fixes or just for getting your device working while waiting on a proper Linux kernel patch to land. touchscreen_dmi is a special place for DMI quirks for this, but it can be challenging for users to figure out the right property values, especially for Silead touchscreens where non of these can be read back from the touchscreen-controller.
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