Re: [gentoo-user] Touch screen

["Stéphane ANCELOT" <sancelot@free.fr>]

Hi,

Have you got calibration software running under X or is it working only
in console mode ?

Best Regards
steph

Rodrigo Forlin a écrit :
> Timo Boettcher wrote this:
>> * Rodrigo Forlin <forlin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can someone point me a touch screen monitor that works under console?
>> I bought a Touchscreen from some car-tuning guy on ebay. The touchscreen
>> is detected as an eGalax compatible unit and works using the
>> usbtouchscreen-module of the linux-kernel (using 2.6.19-gentoo-?).
>> Works as in "the cursor moves when I touch it". I had to patch the
>> kernel to add some sysfs-entries to be able to calibrate it without X.
>> I sent the patch to the maintainer some days ago, who has not repiled
>> yet. If anybody is interested in the patch, please ask.
>>> I develop programs under console using framebuffer so i need also
>>> a nice api to make my programs work with touchscreen. 
>> I use pygame with the fbcon SDL-Driver, that works without any problems.
>> Some rough project overview and screenshots can be found at
>> http://www.spida.net/projects/pympdtouchgui/, code will follow.
>>
>>  HTH, if you want more details, feel free to ask.
>>
>>  Timo
> 
>     Thanks Timo, but I receveid an e-mail from hampshire with a new
> driver and this one works. It seems that it is a good product, and they
> trying to support linux.
> 
>     I'll work a little harder with this one and if this does not succeed
> i'll ask your help.
> 
>     Thanks again,
> 
> Rodrigo Forlin

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