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divisionmd · Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 608

Hello all,

- Thanks alot for help got it working!

Best regards,
Johan

riel · Joined: 07 May 2009 Posts: 2

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.

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5468 Location: Australia

wosifat · Posted: Sat 16 May 2009, 11:46 Post subject:

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.)

andrewr · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 8

The_Pirate · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 7

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... Razz

MthNrd · Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

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!!!

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5468 Location: Australia

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.

The_Pirate · Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 7

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!

caiooiac · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 17

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

caiooiac · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 17

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

IT-Schaf · Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Posts: 8

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?

Shocked

Dummymode: ON Shocked

vaskoiii · Joined: 18 Mar 2010 Posts: 7

My Computer:
Lifebook p1120

Puppy Version:
4.3

Issue:
Touchscreen worked out of the box but config values are ignored.

maddmike · Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 14

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5468 Location: Australia

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 -