Touch screen laptop

Philip Rhoades phil at pricom.com.au
Sat Mar 7 07:55:34 UTC 2009


Sam,


Sam J Sharpe wrote:

>> I have an older laptop that has a reversible screen so it can be used as
>> a tablet PC but I have never used it like that (it currently has F10
>> installed). Are there Fedora utilities I can use to check to see if I
>> can get the touchscreen working with F10?
> 
> In general, if you assume that it's a wacom touchscreen, you can install
> the linuxwacom package and play with wacdump to see if your pen/finger
> generates useful movement information - have a google for it, there's
> planty of info out there.


The reason I didn't mention the brand/model is that no-one would 
recognise it - indeed the model isn't even listed on the manufacturer's 
site anymore (T200C - http://www.clevo.com.tw/en).

I tried using wacdump with /dev/event/input[0-7] with no luck . .

Anything else to try?

Thanks,

Phil.
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