[LAU] Midipoke 0.1, an XY(Z)-controller for touchpads

[Igor Brkic]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Raine M. Ekman <raine at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> So, after asking here about MIDI controllers for touchpads a while back I
> went ahead and made something out of my vision of how it could work. It's
> a pretty primitive command line X11 program sending ALSA MIDI. X, Y and
> Z axes can be mapped to controllers or pitch bend and 2-fingered touch
> can also be used as an on/off switch for hold pedal, portamento or
> whatever.

Great idea! I wanted to make something like that for a long time now
but wish was never strong enough and there were always some 'more
important' things :)

But I couldn't get it to work... :(

I first tried on my main computer (dell XPS m1530) with Arch on it.
Configure script wasn't working. It reports [1]. But inspite of that
make went through without problems. SHM is enabled in HAL (at least I
think - 'synclient -m 100' works). But when I try to run it it reports
[2]. But there is Alps touchpad in it (it is using synaptics driver
but it is not made by Synaptics) and maybe that is the reason.

Then I tried on Asus Eee 701 with Jolicloud (Ubuntu variant) on it.
This time configure script worked, 'synclient -m 100' worked too, but
again when I try to run it (./midipoke -x 1 -a), I get the same error
[2].


Regards!
Igor


[1]:
./checkheaders.sh
./checkheaders.sh: line 5: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
./checkheaders.sh: line 23: syntax error: unexpected end of file
make: *** [check] Error 2

[2]: Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?