Thread: The Glorious iLiad!
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Old 05-09-2008, 03:17 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by sanders View Post
I'm afraid that would be quite a hack. If you would want to read the stylus interface directly (reading from /dev/ttyS0) in iPDF, you would be "competing" with the X server (which is also reading this data). I was experimenting with stopping the X server, but can't seem to restart it (and all the iLiad applications) reliably.
Hmmm, How about sending it a SIGSTOP to halt? and a SIGCONT to let it operate again... quite hacky and not clean altough...
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