Touch screen laptop - evtouch - no response

[Philip Rhoades]

Sam,


Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> 2009/3/7 Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au>:
>> 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?
> 
> This page says it's a Fujitsu Panel:
> http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/showthread.php?p=203592
> 
> This page says the Linux drivers are available "on request":
> http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/edevices/components/touchpanels/drivers.html
> 
> Googling gets these results:
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fujitsu+touch+panel+linux
> 
> The Linux Touch Screen HOWTO eventually leads to this:
> http://www.conan.de/touchscreen/index.html
> 
> So, have you tried that?


After messing around getting rid of error messages from the modified
xorg.conf file - Xorg.0.log still seems to have an "event1" conflict 
with the keyboard but otherwise seems alright - however I don't getting 
any touch screen action.   xorg.conf below:


Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
#	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
#	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    inputDevice "touchscreen" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
	FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

# Section "InputDevice"
# 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
# 	Driver      "kbd"
# EndSection

# Section "InputDevice"
# 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
# 	Driver      "mouse"
# 	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
# 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
# 	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
# EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "touchscreen"
    Driver "evtouch"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
    Option "DeviceName" "touchscreen"
    Option "MinX" "98"
    Option "MinY" "43"
    Option "MaxX" "940"
    Option "MaxY" "925"
    Option "ReportingMode" "Raw"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
    Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
    Option "SendCoreEvents" "On"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "dummy"
    Driver "void"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"         	# <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"       	# <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "intel"
	VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
	BoardName   "82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     16
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection


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Philip Rhoades

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