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[Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/14/2012 11:33 AM, Florian Echtler wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to use a Wacom Bamboo (CTH-460) as a multitouch input device 
> for Xorg. Using evtest on the console properly reports two touchpoints, 
> but no matter what I try under X, I'm always getting emulated scroll 
> wheel events instead.
> 
> I've already tried xserver-xorg-input-multitouch & 
> xserver-xorg-input-wacom, but same behaviour. X server is 1.11.3 from 
> Ubuntu, so multitouch/XI 2.2 should already be supported AFAICT.

You want to use xserver-xorg-input-evdev if you want it to behave like a
touchscreen, or xserver-xorg-input-synaptics if you want it to behave
like a trackpad. It's not a perfect solution, but it is a start and
should work for these use cases.

-- Chase