Originally Posted by justforfun

But why they look garbled。I tried several characters encoding but failed to show them clearly. Does anyone know the right way?

Originally Posted by ossipena

you should cat 'em into a file and open the file with a program that can handle correct encoding.... xterm isn't such a program..... (it gets messed pretty easily when outputting anything except standard text files)

e:
for example

Code:

cat /dev/input/event3 > events.log

Originally Posted by nicolai

The values are in a binary format.
Look for input event struct.
A simple python script to read and decode the data:

Code:

import struct
tsdevice = "/dev/input/ts"
format = "iihhi"

file = open(tsdevice,"rb")
event = file.read(16)
x = 0
y = 0

while True:
        (time1, time2, type, code, value) = struct.unpack(format,event)
        if type == 3:
                if code == 0:
                        x = value
                if code == 1:
                        y = value
        if type == 0:
                print x, ":", y
        event = file.read(16)

Nicolai

Originally Posted by TiagoTiago

Does that report the calibrated or the raw coordinates? (I've read that the N900 watches where you click and notices when you click near but not exactly on a GUI element and then actually hits it and uses that data to correct for any deformations in the input)