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divisionmd

Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 608
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Posted: Sun 10 May 2009, 16:34 Post subject:
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Hello all,
- Thanks alot for help got it working!
Best regards,
Johan
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riel
Joined: 07 May 2009 Posts: 2
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Posted: Fri 15 May 2009, 05:11 Post subject:
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I found out that my device uses a PS2 touchscreen, on the motherboards Mouseinput.
The mouse driver must be capable of doing this. Anyone knows how? I feel that it is really interfering with my mouse.
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5468 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sat 16 May 2009, 06:46 Post subject:
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riel wrote: | I found out that my device uses a PS2 touchscreen ...
The mouse driver must be capable of doing this. |
Ah yes, that's a problem. I think that the mouse driver, which is statically built into the Puppy kernel, must be configured to cope with touchscreen functions. The kernel in Puppy 4.1/4.2 does not have this enabled. I attach an image of Puppy's kernel configuration where you can see this.
Maybe you could lobby Barry to enable the Touchkit PS2 setting for uPup?
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wosifat
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 104 Location: Madison Heights, VA
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Posted: Sat 16 May 2009, 11:46 Post subject:
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Crazy question get!
I saw somewhere online that would convert a Macbook to a tablet. Can the same be done with PC notebooks? (Somewhat related I guess.)
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andrewr
Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 8
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Posted: Thu 04 Jun 2009, 07:04 Post subject:
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tempestuous wrote: | riel wrote: | I found out that my device uses a PS2 touchscreen ...
The mouse driver must be capable of doing this. |
Ah yes, that's a problem. I think that the mouse driver, which is statically built into the Puppy kernel, must be configured to cope with touchscreen functions. The kernel in Puppy 4.1/4.2 does not have this enabled. |
Bugger.
My Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 uses a Fujitsu FJC600 touchscreen via the PS2 port. It sort of works but is not usable (ie where you touch and where the mouse cursor ends up are two different places.)
Ah well.....
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The_Pirate
Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 7
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Posted: Sun 09 Aug 2009, 10:31 Post subject:
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Hi -
I have a Fujitsu/Siemens B-2131 lifebook.
Of course, i did not read all the entries in this thread (If everything fails, read the manual...) and tried to configure it for a serial touchscreen. Stupid as usual.
It didn't work, so i assume it must be a PS/2 screen..as somebody wrote it would be in a "B" series...
There is absolutely no response from the touchscreen...also not from the PS/2 connector, when i plug a trackball into the socket, even though the configuration program found the PS/2 port.
The built in 'mouse' (a little funny green joystick in the keyboard) as well as a external USB mouse work fine.
Has anybody managed to get one of these screens to work? If you have ideas, i volunteer as a Guinea Pig. I'm just not that fast on the uptake, so please write really slow...
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MthNrd
Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Posts: 1
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Posted: Wed 19 Aug 2009, 13:20 Post subject:
Another Fujitsu B-series Lifebooker Here Subject description: I love my HardPuppy, but ... |
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If I can't get the touchscreen to work, I will drop it off at the shelter and revert back to Win2000
Working with a B-2175...
Someone, somewhere, HELP US!!!
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5468 Location: Australia
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Posted: Wed 19 Aug 2009, 21:13 Post subject:
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As I said earlier in this thread -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=295653#295653
the B-series Lifebooks have a PS/2 touchscreen interface, so they cannot be made to work with Puppy.
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The_Pirate
Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 7
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Posted: Sat 22 Aug 2009, 09:57 Post subject:
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tempestuous, i ACK that the kernel options are currently missing. But i refuse to give up. I'm a stubborn old git.
So, we need a new kernel. I see two options:
1) Puppy supplies one. It would be appropriate that the new kernel contains the fix for the recent "null pointer" flap, this way everybody benefits. I guess this involves "lobby Barry", but i'm not sure how to do that.
2) Where is the stuff we need to roll our own kernel? Then we'll just have to do it ourselves.
From there on, i guess we'll have to play it by ear.
BTW, may i compliment tempestuous on the amount of work, as well as the quality of it, on the subject of touchscreeens? I have not found any other guides on the web, no matter for what distro, that deals with touchscreens with the new kernels. IMHO this deserves to be worked into a "Touchscreens on Linux 2.6 HOWTO", as there currently seems to be no such thing...
Thanks for your work!
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caiooiac
Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 17
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Posted: Thu 03 Sep 2009, 18:49 Post subject:
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Hello everyone
I'm with the same problem as the lifebook b-series owners. I have a fujitsu lifebook B-2154 and am trying to make the touchscreen work.
I'm sorry to hear that the pro in touchscreen think we have no solution... and I'm to ignorant to really help or even to disagree, but from my research I think is possible. Just isn't a real good how to like this one...
All explain my point of view: three successful installations in my model
http://users.tkk.fi/u/jjvayryn/B2154.html
http://www.minus1.de/s/lifebook-linux.html
http://www.shappyhopper.co.uk/b2154/
No one is with puppy, but they are all linux...
Here we have someone who made the drive and teaches how to use it:
http://stlx01.stz-softwaretechnik.de/~ke/touchscreen/evtouch.html
Mine doesn't work with his configuration. He has a kernel pach, but he says kernel 2,6,13 and newer doesn't need it, so I don't have it (and because I don't know how to make a kernel pach...).
And last but not least we have this threat:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34273&sid=8c6a05a6cc95971f9b277506a36932fe
Where one or to guys manage to make the touchscreen work.
As I said before I'm far far away from been a advanced user and can't figure out what I doing wrong, so I have some questions, hope you can help me.
-Do I need to do the kernel pach?
-I downloaded the evtouch drive and copy it to /usr/X11R6/xorg/lib/modules/input (or something like that, I don't have my laptop on now). Is this installing the drive or do I need to do something else?
-Booting the default puppy 4.21 already make my touchscreen work (but not at properly). When I edit xorg.conf like said in the last site, nothing works (touchscreen and mouse stick), but if I delete either one of the corepoints entry, it works like before. What's up with that??
Thank you in advance for any help
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caiooiac
Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 17
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Posted: Thu 03 Sep 2009, 19:17 Post subject:
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I can't believe it!!!!! I just got my touchscreen working!!!!!!
I was trying to do that for ages!! I'm so happy!
So I'll tell how I made mine work:
Downloaded evtouch-0.8.7.tar.gz from http://stlx01.stz-softwaretechnik.de/~ke/touchscreen/evtouch.html and copied the evtouch_drv.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/xorg/modules/input
Then I add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "touchscreen" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "touchscreen"
Driver "evtouch"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
Option "DeviceName" "touchscreen"
Option "MinX" "44"
Option "MinY" "93"
Option "MaxX" "975"
Option "MaxY" "990"
Option "ReportingMode" "Raw"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "On"
EndSection
That is Mr_Parker configuration (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34273&sid=8c6a05a6cc95971f9b277506a36932fe). That's the same as the download place, but with the correct numbers for my laptop model.
And the only deference in my case (and it made all the difference ) was in this line:
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
When I changed mine to event1 it worked!!!!!!
So goof luck everyone, hope you manage to make your's work.
Bye
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IT-Schaf
Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Posts: 8
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Posted: Tue 15 Sep 2009, 04:12 Post subject:
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I use an Simatic Touchscreen with a Semtech Screencoder, it is a USB-Touchscreen. The Driver from Touch Base Ltd dosn´t work, same at evtouch, evdev and other. The Touchscreen is running but not configurable it´s horrible.
I changed the Xorg and written an udev rules, but nothing helps.
The configuration tool from TouchBase is running, but i can´t use them, because the mousepointer is overwrite the pointer from touchscreen i think. Anyone ideas?
Dummymode: ON
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vaskoiii
Joined: 18 Mar 2010 Posts: 7
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Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010, 04:57 Post subject:
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My Computer:
Lifebook p1120
Puppy Version:
4.3
Issue:
Touchscreen worked out of the box but config values are ignored.
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#cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0430 Product=0508 Version=0100
N: Name="Fujitsu Takamisawa USB Touch Panel"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.0-3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event8 js0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=3
B: MSC=10
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On boot the touchpanel works and everything but I can't figure out how to configure it. I have followed this HOWTO for USB and Serial Touch Panels but it doesn't seem to matter what I put as config values. The touchpanel always seems to put the cursor in the same place no matter what MinX, MaxX, MinY, MaxY values I put.
Please advise.
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maddmike
Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 14
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Posted: Thu 18 Mar 2010, 10:14 Post subject:
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vaskoiii wrote: | The touchpanel always seems to put the cursor in the same place no matter what MinX, MaxX, MinY, MaxY values I put.
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This was also the "best" result I got with my Panasonic T-5, which has a Fujitsu USB touchscreen. My theory was that X11 was getting data from the touchscreen, but it was in the wrong format, so it couldn't get real X,Y positions. I tried different drivers, different "DEVICE" settings in Xorg.conf, different options. Sometimes I could change the location of where the mouse pointer would go, but it was always stuck in one location.
I gave up after getting to this point.
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5468 Location: Australia
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Posted: Fri 19 Mar 2010, 01:49 Post subject:
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vaskoiii, you make no mention of whether you installed the touchscreen-Puppy4.1.pet from the first page in this forum thread.
This is essential, you must install this dotpet, because Puppy lacks any form of Xorg input plugin to support touchscreen devices.
Then you must adapt my instructions to your own particular situation; in the "HOWTO - USB touchscreens" post I explained how to configure Xorg to use the "evtouch" Xorg plugin ... but this Xorg plugin is not necessarily compatible with your touchscreen!
I think (??) that your touchscreen plugin will be "fujitsu", not evtouch.
So when you add a new InputDevice section to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
it should look like this -
Code: | Section "InputDevice"
...
Driver "fujitsu"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
...
EndSection |
Save.
Then restart X (Ctrl < Alt > backspace) after every configuration change.
Of course, the usbtouchscreen and evdev kernel modules must also be loaded.
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